Developments in Demography in the 21st Century - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030264912 ISBN 13 : 9783030264918

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Synopsis

Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. "Developments in Demography" (Joachim Singelmann and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.).- Chapter 2. "What's Changing the World? A Demographer's Perspective" (Wendy Baldwin).- Part II. Methodological and Statistical Issues.- Chapter 3. "A Demographic Evaluation of the Stability of ACS Estimates for ACS Test Sites: 2000 to 2011" (J. Gregory Robinson and Eric B. Jensen).- Chapter 4. "Approaches for Addressing Missing Data in Statistical Analyses of Female and Male Adolescent Fertility" (Eugenia Conde and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.).- Chapter 5. "Considering Local Measures of Poverty Using Shift-Share Techniques: A Comparative Analysis" (Gregory L. Hamilton and Melody Muldrow).- Part III. Data Issues.- Chapter 6. "Potential Explanations for the high Net Undercount of Young Children in the U.S. Census" (William P. O'Hare).- Chapter 7. "Babies no Longer: Projecting the 100+ Population." (Howard Hogan and Sandra Colby).- Chapter 8. "Cohort approaches using educational data of the Czech Republic: Massification of Tertiary Education and its Impact on Education Attainment." (Vladimír Hulík, Klára Hulíková Tesárková).- Chapter 9. "The Socio-Demographic Consequences of the Deep-Water Horizon Oil Spill: Measurement Issues for Policy Mitigation" (Joachim Singelmann and Corey Sparks).- Part IV. Issues of Health, Aging, and Mortality.- Chapter 10. "Determinants of Female Sterilization in Brazil, 2001-2007" (Ernesto F. L. Amaral).- Chapter 11. "Potential reduction in mortality associated with the shifts of population educational structures in the Czech Republic" (Jitka Rychtaříková, Klára Hulíková Tesárková).- Chapter 12. "Aging and family support in the State of Mexico" (Viridiana Sosa Márquez).- Chapter 13. "Impact of population ageing on household structure: evidence from the Czech Republic" (Pavlína Habartová, Klára Hulíková Tesárková, Olga Sivková).- Chapter 14. "Intimate Homicide Mortality in Alaska from a Demographic Perspective" (Donna Shai).- Chapter 15. "Correlates of Cognitive Decline among the Elderly: The Case of Mexicans in Mexico and in the United States" (Silvia Mejia Arango, Joachim Singelmann, Rogelio Saenz).- Part V. Issues in Social Demography.- Chapter 16. "The Urban Hierarchies in China and the United States" (Qian Xiong and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.).- Chapter 17. "School District Formation as an Explanation for Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Concentrated Poverty in Bexar County, Texas" (Matthew Martinez).- Chapter 18. "Marriage Selectivity & Stepfamily Formation (tentative title) (Gabriela Sánchez Soto).- Chapter 19. "Minority Student Participation in International Programs: A Survey of Undergraduate Students Attending HBCUs" (Komanduri S. Murty and Jimmy D. McCamey, Jr.).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joachim Singelmann is the Dean's Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His previous positions were at Louisiana State University, United Nations Population Division, University of California-San Diego, and Vanderbilt University. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. Singelmann's research areas include industrial restructuring, transitions from central planning to market economies, demographic development, sociodemographic consequences of disasters, and inequality and poverty. His research has been funded by several foundations including NSF and the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, the Interior, and Agriculture. Singelmann is the author of many books and his research has been published in the major social science journals in the United States and Europe, including Demography, American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Rural Sociology, and Demographic Research. Singelmann has been the editor of Rural Sociology and President of the Southern Demographic Association and the Rural Sociological Society.

Dudley L. Poston, Jr. is Professor of Sociology and the Abell Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Poston also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Demography at People's University, Beijing, China; Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; and Adjunct Professor of Demography at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. He previously served on the faculties of Cornell University (1988-1992) and the University of Texas at Austin (1970-1988). He has co-authored/edited eighteen books and over 320 journal articles, book chapters, and research reports. The 2^nd edition of his demography text (with Leon Bouvier), Populationand Society: An Introduction to Demography was published in January, 2017. Poston is presently editing the 2^nd edition of the Handbook of Population (Springer). At Texas A&M University he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Statistics, Demography, and Demographic Methods.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030264912
• ISBN 13: 9783030264918
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Éditeur: Singelmann Joachim, Poston Jr Dudley L.
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