The Institutional Context of Population Change
Subtitle: Patterns of Fertility and Mortality across High-Income Nations (Population and Development Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780226645254
Subjects: Birth; Death & dying; Population & demography; Social Science; Sociology; Demography; Social Science / Demography; General; Sociology - General; Cross-cultural studies; Economic development; Fertility, Human; Population policy
First sentence: Despite having passed through a demographic transition to low fertility and mortality rates, the high-income nations of Western Europe, North America, Oceania, and Japan have nonetheless experienced notable and often puzzling demographic changes in recent decades.