As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume draws together for the first time state-of-the-art work from the emerging field of the demography of aging. The nine chapters, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, highlight data sources and research approaches, results, and proposed strategies on a topic with major policy implications for labor forces, economic well-being, health care, and the need for social and family supports. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 The Formal Demography of Population Aging, Transfers, and the Economic Life Cycle 3 Retirement and Labor Force Behavior of the Elderly 4 Income, Wealth, and Intergenerational Economic Relations of the Aged 5 The Elderly and Their Kin: Patterns of Availability and Access 6 Care of the Elderly: Division of Labor Among the Family, Market, and State 7 Medical Demography: Interaction of Disability Dynamics and Mortality 8 Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Mortality and Health Status 9 Geographic Concentration, Migration, and Population Redistribution Among the Elderly 10 Research on the Demography of Aging in Developing Countries Appendix: Letter to Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging from the Committee on Population, March 2, 1993

This overview includes chapters on child mortality, adult mortality, fertility, proximate determinants, marriage, internal migration, international migration, and the demographic impact of AIDS. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Fertility Levels, Differentials, and Trends 3 The Approximate Determinants of Fertility 4 Recent Trends in Marriage Ages 5 Trends in Childhood Mortality 6 Adult Mortality 7 Internal Migration, Urbanization, and Population Distribution 8 International Migration 9 Models of the Demographic Effect of AIDS