Prologue-A Place to Live, Work, and Play: Housing Demand and Urbanization in the Baltic Countries -- Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries -- Soviet-Era Housing Systems Explained: Constructing and Inhabiting Socialist Housing Estates in the Baltics -- Freedom and Constraints: Ideals Transferred but Eclipsed by Industrialised Housing Production -- …
Sources of Demographic Data -- Sampling Designs and Inference -- Waiting Times and Their Statistical Estimation -- Regression Models for Counts and Survival -- Multistate Models and Cohort-Component Book-Keeping -- Approaches to Forecasting Demographic Rates -- Uncertainty in Demographic Forecasts: Concepts, Issues, and Evidence -- Statistical Propagation of Error in Forecasting -- Errors in Ce…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Territorial and spatial effects of dams -- Chapter 2. Human and social consequences -- Chapter 3. Comparison of South-North effects -- Conclusion.The book focuses on the human and social effects of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil. It discusses themes such as forced migrations, how the families of the victims of the dams adapt to new living areas, the …
Introduction: Population Without Age -- The Life Table -- The Matrix Model Framework -- Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio -- Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory -- Birth and Population Increase from the Life Table -- Birth and Population Increase from Matrix Population Models -- Reproductive Value from the Life Table -- Reproductive Value from Matrix Mo…
Development of an historical account to explain change in social mobility -- Critical review of the main conceptualizations of social stratification -- Conceptualization, test and application of a new class scheme -- In-depth analysis of absolute and relative mobility in Germany and the U.S. -- Comparison of social mobility chances in the U.S. and Germany. .Based on a novel class scheme and a u…
Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Foundations For Land-Use Planning Projects Determines Sustainability -- Chapter3: Site Selection With Attention To Susceptibility To Natural And Human Caused Hazards -- Chapter4: Strategic Palnning For Urban Centers: Present and Future -- Chapter5: Planning For Existing Polluting Industries And Parks Zoned For Industrial Development -- Chapter6: Curtailing Ag…
Age-Structural Transitions, Population Waves and “Political Arithmetick” -- Issues and Patterns -- Age-Structural Transitions and Policy: Frameworks -- Human Capital Aspects of Economic Development: A Comparative Perspective in Asia -- A Comparative History of Age-Structure and Social Transitions Among Asian Youth -- Policy Analysis, Models and Methods -- A Formal Model of Age-Structural Tr…
Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Population Structure -- Age and Sex -- Population Distribution and Suburbanization -- Marriage and Family -- Demography of Gender -- Demography of Aging -- Demography of Race and Ethnicity -- Labor Force -- Population Processes -- Fertility -- Infant Mortality …
Preface -- 1. Introduction and Goals -- 2. Alternative Formulas for Selected Indices -- 3. Overview of the “Difference of Means” Framework -- 4. Index-Specific Implementations of Difference of Means Formulations -- 5. Index Differences in Registering Area Group Proportions -- 6. Empirical Relationships among Indices -- 7.Distinctions between Displacement and Separation -- 8. Further Comment…
1 The Stable Population Model -- 2 Extensions of the Linear Theory -- 3 Nonlinear One-Sex Models -- 4 Pair Formation Models -- 5 Basic Ideas in Epidemic Modeling -- 6 Age-Structured SIR Epidemic Model -- 7 Epidemic Models for HIV Infection -- 8 Variable Susceptibility, Reinfection and Immunity -- 9 Basic Reproduction Number R0 -- 10 Mathematical Tools.This book is the first one in which basic d…