Hakutulokset: population and development
Etsimme kuitenkin kirjoja hakusanalla population and development , mikä antoiyhteensä 9 hakutulosta
The Institutional Context of Population Change
Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and …
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
In the early 19th century, thousands of emancipated and freeborn blacks from the United States returned to Africa to colonize the area now known as Liberia. In this systematic …
Social Change and the Family in Taiwan
This interdisciplinary study provides an analysis of the complex changes in family relations in a society undergoing revolutionary social and economic transformation. It explores …
Reading History Sideways
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to …
Marriage and Cohabitation
Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's five-hundred-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and …
From Parent to Child
How do parents allocate human capital among their children? To what extent do parental decisions about resource allocation determine children's eventual economic success? The …
Fertility Change in Contemporary Japan
The authors examine the striking decline in Japan's birthrate in light of the rapid urbanization, industrialization, and socioeconomic development experienced by the nation since …
Birth Quake
Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world - and the United States in particular - experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. In Birth Quake, Diane J. Macunovich …
Anthropological Demography
In its early years anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other's assumptions and methods. In order to show that …