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Handbook of Population

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Dudley L. Poston

    1. Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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  2. Michael Micklin

    1. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

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  • The most comprehensive reference collection on population in the last 40 years
  • The contributors are leaders in the field of demography and population studies
  • Dudley Poston is the Abell Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University and Michael Micklin is chief of Risk, Prevention, & Health Behavior Integrated Review Group at the National Institutes of Health
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change

    1. Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change

      • Michael Micklin, Dudley L. Poston Jr.
      Pages 1-15

  3. Population Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-18
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    2. Age and Sex

      • Dudley L. Poston Jr.
      Pages 19-58

    3. Population Distribution and Suburbanization

      • Avery M. Guest, Susan K. Brown
      Pages 59-86

    4. Marriage and Family

      • Linda J. Waite
      Pages 87-108

    5. Demography of Gender

      • Nancy E. Riley
      Pages 109-141

    6. Demography of Aging

      • Peter Uhlenberg
      Pages 143-167

    7. Demography of Race and Ethnicity

      • Rogelio Saenz, M. Cristina Morales
      Pages 169-208

    8. Labor Force

      • Teresa A. Sullivan
      Pages 209-225

  4. Population Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-228
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    2. Fertility

      • S. Philip Morgan, Kellie J. Hagewen
      Pages 229-249

    3. Infant Mortality

      • W. Parker Frisbie
      Pages 251-282

    4. Adult Mortality

      • Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer, Patrick M. Krueger
      Pages 283-309

    5. Internal Migration

      • Michael J. White, David P. Lindstrom
      Pages 311-346

    6. International Migration

      • Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean
      Pages 347-382

    7. Demography of Social Stratification

      • Arthur Sakamoto, Daniel A. Powers
      Pages 383-416

  5. Population and the Social Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 417-418
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    2. Social Demography

      • Charles Hirschman, Stewart E. Tolnay
      Pages 419-449

    3. Organizational and Corporate Demography

      • Glenn R. Carroll, Olga M. Khessina
      Pages 451-477
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About this book

Completion of this Handbook would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated assistance of numerous people. Several years ago Howard Kaplan, Editor of the Kluwer/Plenum Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, asked Dudley Poston to edit a Handbook of Population. Poston then asked his long-time collaborator and fellow demographer, Michael Micklin, to join him as co-editor. Poston and Micklin next assembled a list of chapter topics and possible authors. We endeavored to shape the contributions to the Handbook in two ways: We wished to parallel in many ways the outline of The Study of Population, edited by Philip M. Hauser and Otis Dudley Duncan, and published in 1959. The Hauser and Duncan volume was the key comp- dium and inventory of the state of demography; one had not been published since. In shaping this Handbook we also took into account the increased scope of demography, its development in other social science areas, and its application outside the academy. In the subsequent development of this Handbook, we worked closely with Teresa Kraus, our editor at Springer, and also received advice from Howard Kaplan. Poston and Micklin read and edited each of the Handbook chapters and then sent them back to the authors for their revisions. We appreciate their timely responses to our requests for revisions. All the chapters were then copy edited at Texas A&M University by Amanda K. Baumle, who then discussed and reviewed the final changes and edits with Poston.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"A systematic appraisal of the field of demography is long overdue.  It has been almost five decades since Philip Hauser and Otis Dudley Duncan published their classic The Study of Populaiton.  The volume naturally covers the latest developments in time-honored  fields such as age and sex, marriage and family, mortality, fertility, and both internal and international migration. It also inlcudes new material on subjects that did not even exist at the time of the last survey, including biodemography, anthropological demography, and political demography.  This comprehensive review of 50 years of progress in theoretical and empirical knowledge confirms that demography is indeed a cumulative science." (Douglas S. Massey, Princeton)

"The Handbook of Population is a worthy successor to the 1959 publication of The Study of Population edited by Hauser and Duncan.  The editors did a remarkable job of putting together an excellent outline that covers every topic within Demography.  The editors did an even more remarkable job in gathering such talented scholars to write each chapter.  Together they mesh into what will soon become our 'bible.' It should be in every college library and should be on every demographer's desk." (Leon Bouvier, Old Dominion University) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Dudley L. Poston

  • National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

    Michael Micklin

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