Population & Demography

Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the countrys future Americans are under the spell of a dis...

Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been m...

Home to close to 60 per cent of the worlds population, Asia is the largest and by far the most populous continent. It is also extremely diverse, ph...

As the twin demographic shifts of population aging and diversity speed forward in America, it is hard to imagine a timelier or more needed work. -...

Why do American couples differ in the number of children they have? To answer this question the first major longitudinal study in American fertilit...

Who were the early ancestors of East European Ashkenazic Jews, how were they related to the biblical Israelites/Judeans, and when and from where di...

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decol...

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decol...

In 1999, the people of Indonesia's Riau Archipelago were angry. Resentful of decades of 'internal colonialism' by Mainland Sumatra, and concerned t...

How do we draw the lines between good and bad neighborhoods? How do we know ghettos? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions ...

Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities--Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed--in the sixteenth-century, Amnon...

Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred ...

Census decennial enumerations are utilized to achieve two useful estimates: (l) Annual series of estimates of births, birth rates, and fertility ra...

This is the second in a series of monographs on the historic decline of European fertility to be issued by the Office of Population Research at Pri...

Although mathematical demography has traditionally studied the so-called stable population (fixed mortality and fertility schedules), Ansley Coale ...

This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history. It addresses a var...

Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the relationships of demograph...

In analyzing the social and economic factors underlying the decline of fertility in nineteenth-century France. Etienne van de Walle found that offi...

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the Peoples Republic of China In 1949, at the end ...

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the Peoples Republic of China In 1949, at the end ...

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city. The spaces readers ...

This book paints a picture of poor older peoples life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities an...