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Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 37.00Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability addresses the economic consequences of uncertainty in demographic forecasting. more...
My Sixty Years with Rural Youth
University of Minnesota Press 1956; US$ 67.50My Sixty Years with Rural Youth was first published in 1956. Reading this book will be like a personal visit and reminiscence for the thousands of persons, particularly in rural Minnesota and the Middle West, who have known the author affectionately as "Dad" Erickson. Mr. Erickson devoted much of his life to the 4-H club program for rural... more...
Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating population decline in addition the changes in age distributions... more...
Genders in the Life Course
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99Here is a comprehensive and hugely important treatment of the topic of gender and demographic behaviour. It covers a lot of ground, from the age at first intercourse, through union formation and dissolution, to subjects such as fertility, migration, and ageing. It also examines in detail excess male mortality and provides a comparison of gender-specific... more...
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00"An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."—William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark in the growing field of economic demography."—Dudley... more...
How Australia Compares
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 74.00This book compares Australia with 17 other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. more...
HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. South Africa has emerged as ground zero for the pandemic. This book presents the South African crisis as a template for addressing the myriad issues surrounding the epidemic worldwide. more...
The Institutional Context of Population Change
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 46.00Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for... more...
Tough Choices
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 57.50This book offers the first detailed study of why the number of unmarried Japanese mothers has hardly changed since 1955, despite the prevalence of certain factors in Japan (more later marriages, higher divorce rate, and so on) that have brought about significant increases in lone mothers in even the most conservative western industrialized countries. more...
Population Estimation and Projection
ABC-CLIO 1992; US$ 108.00Raymondo provides a step-by-step guide through the complex issues associated with the methods of producing population estimates and projections. The author's approach reflects both his formal training in the study of population and his experience as an applied demographer, where he was frequently called upon to present technical population data... more...









