Analytical Family Demography

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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In this book new mathematical and statistical techniques that permit more sophisticated analysis are refined and applied to questions of current concern in order to understand the forces that are driving the recent dramatic changes in family patterns.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-02-01
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt528 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
Antal sidor337
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030066154

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Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography/ Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.

1. Robert Schoen: Introduction.- Part One: Analyzing Theories of Family Demography: 2. Elwood Carlson: Reformulating Second Demographic Transition Theory.- 3. Máire Ní Bhrolcháin and Éva Beaujouan: Do people have reproductive goals? Constructive preferences and the discovery of desired family size.- 4. Benoît Laplante, Joice Melo Vieira, and Graziela Cristina Farina Ramos Ribeiro Barnabé: Consensual union and marriage in Brazil, 1970-2010: Gender equality, legal issues, and social context.- Part Two: At the Analytical Frontier: 5. Nicola Barban and Maria Sironi: Sequence analysis as a tool for family demography.- 6. André Grow and Jan Van Bavel: Agent-based modeling of family formation and dissolution.- 7. Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Daniel A. Powers: Examining same-sex couples using dyadic data methods.- Part Three: Analytical Applications: 8. Robert Schoen: Parity progression and the kinship network.- 9. Robert Schoen: On the implications of age-specific fertility for sibships and birth spacing.- 10. J. Bart Stykes and Karen Benjamin Guzzo: Multiple-partner fertility: Variation across measurement approaches.- 11. Richard Gisser and Dalkhat Ediev: Having ancestors alive: Trends and prospects in ageing Europe.- Part Four: Analytical Overviews: 12. Nico Keilman: Family projection methods: A review.- 13. Daniel T. Lichter and Zhenchao Qian: The study of assortative mating: Theory, data, and analysis.