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Analytical Family Demography

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Robert Schoen

    1. Population Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, USA

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  • Brings state-of-the-art methods to bear on current issues in family demography
  • Accessible resource for advanced techniques in analyzing family demography
  • A source for cutting-edge analyses of changing family dynamics by leading scholars

Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 47)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Schoen
    Pages 1-4

  3. Analyzing Theories of Family Demography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Reformulating Second Demographic Transition Theory

      • Elwood Carlson
      Pages 7-26

    3. Do People Have Reproductive Goals? Constructive Preferences and the Discovery of Desired Family Size

      • Máire Ní Bhrolcháin, Éva Beaujouan
      Pages 27-56

    4. Consensual Union and Marriage in Brazil, 1970–2010. Gender Equality, Legal Issues and Social Context

      • Benoît Laplante, Joice Melo Vieira, Graziela Cristina Farina Ramos Ribeiro Barnabé
      Pages 57-98

  4. At the Analytical Frontier

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Sequence Analysis as a Tool for Family Demography

      • Nicola Barban, Maria Sironi
      Pages 101-123

    3. Agent-Based Modeling of Family Formation and Dissolution

      • André Grow, Jan Van Bavel
      Pages 125-156

    4. Examining Same-Sex Couples Using Dyadic Data Methods

      • Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Daniel A. Powers
      Pages 157-186

  5. Analytical Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Parity Progression and the Kinship Network

      • Robert Schoen
      Pages 189-199

    3. On the Implications of Age-Specific Fertility for Sibships and Birth Spacing

      • Robert Schoen
      Pages 201-214

    4. Multiple-Partner Fertility: Variation Across Measurement Approaches

      • J. Bart Stykes, Karen Benjamin Guzzo
      Pages 215-239

    5. Having Ancestors Alive: Trends and Prospects in Ageing Europe

      • Richard Gisser, Dalkhat M. Ediev
      Pages 241-274

  6. Analytical Overviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
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    2. Family Projection Methods: A Review

      • Nico Keilman
      Pages 277-301

    3. The Study of Assortative Mating: Theory, Data, and Analysis

      • Daniel T. Lichter, Zhenchao Qian
      Pages 303-337
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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. The areas examined include the impact of the evolving Second Demographic Transition, where complex patterns of gender dynamics and social change are re-orienting family life.  New analyses of marriage, cohabitation, union dynamics, and union dissolution provide a fresh look at the changing family life cycle, emerging patterns of partner choice, and the impact of union dissolution on the life course.  The demography of kinship is explored, and the importance of parity progression to the generation of the kinship web is highlighted.  The methodology of population projections by family status is examined, and new results presented that demonstrate how recognizing family status advances long term policy objectives, especially with regard to children and the elderly.  This book applies up-to-date methods to examine the demography of the family, and will be of value to sociologists, demographers, and all those who are interested in the family.

Reviews

“The volume is certainly an interesting reading for anybody looking for an up-to-date overview of topics and established analytical tools in demographic family research. … many readers will find single chapters not only very useful but also genuinely interesting.” (Zuzanna Brzozowska, European Journal of Population, Vol. 37, 2021)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Population Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, USA

    Robert Schoen

About the editor

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.

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