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Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social
science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the
late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a
classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by
Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by
Kenneth Wachter and Herve Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the
leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the
original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable
source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep
roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social
science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the
late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a
classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by
Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by
Kenneth Wachter and Herve Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the
leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the
original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable
source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep
roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.
Essential Demographic Methods brings to readers the full range of
ideas and skills of demographic analysis that lie at the core of
social sciences and public health. Classroom tested over many
years, filled with fresh data and examples, this approachable text
is tailored to the needs of beginners, advanced students, and
researchers alike. An award-winning teacher and eminent
demographer, Kenneth Wachter uses themes from the individual
lifecourse, history, and global change to convey the meaning of
concepts such as exponential growth, cohorts and periods,
lifetables, population projection, proportional hazards, parity,
marity, migration flows, and stable populations. The presentation
is carefully paced and accessible to readers with knowledge of
high-school algebra. Each chapter contains original problem sets
and worked examples. From the most basic concepts and measures to
developments in spatial demography and hazard modeling at the
research frontier, Essential Demographic Methods brings out the
wider appeal of demography in its connections across the sciences
and humanities. It is a lively, compact guide for understanding
quantitative population analysis in the social and biological
world.
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Biosocial Surveys (Paperback)
Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys, Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council; Edited by Maxine Weinstein, …
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Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing
number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological
data along with the more familiar interviewera "respondent
information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume,
Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social
Science Research? and asks these questions: What have the social
sciences, especially demography, learned from those efforts and the
greater interdisciplinary communication that has resulted from
them? Which biological or genetic information has proven most
useful to researchers? How can better models be developed to help
integrate biological and social science information in ways that
can broaden scientific understanding? This volume contains a
collection of 17 papers by distinguished experts in demography,
biology, economics, epidemiology, and survey methodology. It is an
invaluable sourcebook for social and behavioral science researchers
who are working with biosocial data.
Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis
of human behavior, little of this work has penetrated into formal
demography. Very few demographers worry about how biological
processes might affect voluntary behavior choices that have
demographic consequences even though behavioral geneticists have
documented genetics effects on variables such as parenting and
divorce. Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Demographic
Perspective brings together leading researchers from a wide variety
of disciplines to review the state of research in this emerging
field and to identify promising research directions for the future.
Table of Contents Front Matter 1. Biodemography of Fertility and
Family Formation 2. Genetic Influences on Fertility: Strengths and
Limitations of Quantitative Inferences 3. Education, Fertility, and
Heritability: Explaining a Paradox 4. The Neural Basis of Pair
Bonding in a Monogamous Species: A Model for Understanding the
Biological Basis of Human Behavior 5. Hormonal Mediation of
Physiological and Behavioral Processes That Influence Fertility 6.
Intraspection Variablity in Fertility and Offspring Survival in a
Nonhuman Primate: Behavioral Control in Ecological and Social
Sources 7. An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human
Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment 8. Sexually
Antagonistic Coevolution: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for
Patterns of Human Mating and Fertility 9. Pubertal Maturation,
Andrenarche, and the Onset of Reproduction in Human Males 10.
Energetics, Sociality, and Human Reproduction: Life History Theory
in Real Life 11. Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models
of Fertility 12. Reflections on Demographic, Evolutionary, and
Genetic Approaches to the Study of Human Reproductive Behavior
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