Population & Demography

Population growth, reproductive health and reproductive rights are amongst the most pressing issues facing governments and the international commun...

Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health. Over the past few d...

How the world′s demographic and socio–economic landscape will change over the next two decades Tomorrow′s World maps out the world′s near future t...

The year 2008 marks the beginning of the baby boomer retirement avalanche just as the different demographics in advanced and most developing countr...

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a major new initiative from the U.S. Census Bureau designed to provide continuously updated information on t...

In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s characteristics. G...

Demographics has become a critical dimension of the work of many journalists, business professionals, and government analysts and managers. Yet tho...

Demographics has become a critical dimension of the work of many journalists, business professionals, and government analysts and managers. Yet tho...

The revised edition of A Different View of Urban Schools updates a unique story about the realities of urban education in America and provides new ...

Wide-Ranging Coverage of Parametric Modeling in Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects ModelsMixed Effects Models for the Population Approach: Models, ...

The demographic history of twentieth-century Russia has been marked by a series of tragedies. Calamitous wars, revolutions, civil strife, and polit...

Recent demographic changes have sparked debate about the civic health of American democracy. Democracy requires people of different backgrounds to ...

Fewer Men, More Babies re-evaluates the debate over family patterns in the Caribbean with respect to the critical importance that child labor plays...

The Demographic Revolution in Modern Egypt tells the dramatic story of Egypt's transition in the last two decades from staggeringly high to low fer...

Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years fo...

Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years fo...

This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social chang...

The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for age...

This completely updated third edition of Millennials in America provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and eco...

This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social chang...

This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (...

The History of Social Change in America provides readers with a new understanding about U.S. society and how it has changed. It explores how variou...

Within the context of increased global migration and mobility, education occupies a central role which is being transformed by new human movements ...

The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determin...