Books in the International Studies in Demography series

In this title, eight pioneering network studies from around the world are reviewed, with an introduction that lays out the basics of network survey design, and a glossary of network terminology.

By applying systematic theoretical frameworks to empirical data, this book provides an overview of not only where migration occurs, and how it works, but also details the major factors that influence international population movement. It offers an empirically-grounded theoretical synthesis to serve as a guide for researchers and policy-makers.

Recent mortality trends have been positive for the elderly and their expected survival. This volume examines the trends in the survival of the elderly and in their physical and mental health. The book also describes possible scenarios for the early decades of the 21st century.

This study illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject of event history analysis, concentrating on the timing of events in individual lives. The major methodological approaches and their differences are the subject of this volume.

Surveys the state of knowledge and research on the determinants of human reproduction. This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach and integrates information from demographic, epidemiological and biological studies of fertility. The chapters provide a comprehensive overview of reproductive processes.

This compendium of 19 chapters, written by South Asia scholars and international authorities in the field of population, provides an overview of a range of issues surrounding fertility change in South Asia since 1990.

Prospective community studies are concerned with the understanding of the incidence of birth, disease, and death. They are epidemiological studies of particular communities which involve substantial data collection and are long in duration. This book is the first synthetic presentation of the most important of these surveys to date.

A collection of papers which centre around the Western shift from large extended families to a nuclear family in the twentieth century, with a view to analysing the impact that changing cultural and moral beliefs have had on fertility practice globally. The volume is part of the INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN DEMOGRAPHY series.

A study of the discipline of "anthropological demography", discussing its major methods, main strengths, and chief limitations. It stresses the necessity of a shared agenda and highlights the potential of quantitative and qualitative information in ethnographical and anthropological theories.

A collection of quantitative and qualitative case studies by demographers, anthropologists, and sociologists exploring such issues as commercial sex and prostitution, sexual tourism, heterosexual marriage and social pressure, and homosexuality and bisexuality in emerging sexual cultures. This volume explores the impact of human movement and mobility on sexual change and fertility.

Demography has been associated with a quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories in two ways.

Examines the interactions between economic change and urbanization, in the form of structural shifts in employment, regional development policy, and national industrial policy. This book also discusses the human welfare problems associated with rapid urbanization and a lack of government finance.

This book examines the ways in which women's experiences of poverty lead to particular demographic outcomes. It also shows the paths by which demographic events may determine women's ability to achieve well-being and escape from poverty and it makes explicit the specific circumstances that poor women face in trying to attain a healthy life for themselves and their children.

This volume explores the relationship between economic pressures and demographic patterns. It uses data from industrialized countries to analyze both patterns of family formation and economic factors such as the distribution of resources, governmental policy and women's labour force participation.

Offers a survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. This book shows that international migration is rooted in the expansion and consolidation of global markets. It also states that globalization also creates infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social networks.

This is a collection of papers by scholars whose research concerns economic transfers between generations, focusing on intergenerational features of the macroeconomy, the role of the state as a provider of economic security for the elderly and the intergenerational behaviour of the family.

This research survey, commissioned by the UNFPA, measures the effects of women's education on fertility and female autonomy. It reviews the considerable evidence that has emerged from the developing world and lays out the policy implications of these findings.

In this work, distinguished demographers consider whether recent changes in women's roles are the cause of such changes in family life as rising divorce rates and declining marriage rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children.

Traditionally, women have been the sole focus of fertility studies. Ranging broadly over ethnographies, national surveys, and historical texts, this volume breaks imaginative new ground in grappling with the immense variation in male reproduction across the world.

An examination of the trends of early-age mortality. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributions from demography, biology, medicine, and economic and social history, and the geographical range encompasses Europe, North America, Japan, and India.

This volume brings together a number of in-depth studies on Asian population history. The chapters discuss a diverse range of subjects -- comparative perspectives, fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family -- over a wide geographic area -- Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka.

This collection of essays examines the subject of famine demography. It contains case studies of the demography of historical and more recent famines in locations as far apart as Ireland, Finland, India, Burundi, Russia, Greece, Madagascar, and Japan. The authors address a variety of issues.

There are strongly pronounced differentials between survival chances for different social classes in less developed countries. This book gives insight into the variety of factors - biological, social, economic and cultural - associated with these inequalities in mortality rates.

This volume focuses on the impact of economic fluctuations on mortality, fertility and labour markets in Latin America during the 1980s. Long- and short-term influences and effects are highlighted, and broader factors affecting the continent as a whole are examined.

Examines the decline of mortality which began in the 19th century and was accompanied by a decline in fertility. The essays in the volume consider the various reasons for the decline of mortality - improved diet, higher income, greater health awareness and better public health provisions.

The increasing gap between developed and developing world will be an important theme in the 21st century. This volume concentrates on all aspects of the population and poverty problem: what poverty is, what effects poverty has, what creates poverty, and what can be done to eradicate it.

This volume explores, in various ways, the connections between reproductive health and culture. How does culture shape the ways in which reproductive events are associated with health outcomes? To what extent does the notion of reproductive health have relevance in different circumstances?

This volume extends the research programme on womens' empowerment originally brought to prominence at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. The book refines the concept of empowerment, how it can be measured and its effect on establishing population policies.

Increased female participation in the labour market is a very significant feature of recent economic developments. This volume analyses how demographic conditions have favoured or slowed the increase and what the demographic effects of the increase will be.