Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1974, and sponsored by the Mathematical Social Science Board. Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents:
A homeostatic demographic regime : patterns in West European family reconstitution studies / Daniel Scott Smith -- Peasant household organization and demographic change in Lower Saxony (1689-1766) / Lutz K. Berkner -- The Civil Code and nuptiality : empirical investigation of a hypothesis / Albert I. Hermalin, Etienne van de Walle -- Primonuptiality and ultimonuptiality : their effects on stem-family-household frequencies / E.A. Hammel, Kenneth W. Wachter -- Deaths, marriages, births, and the Tuscan economy (ca. 1300-1550) / David Herlihy -- The influence of economic and social variables on marriage and fertility in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese villages / Susan B. Hanley -- Childbearing and land availability : some evidence from individual household data / R.M. McInnis -- American fertility patterns since the Civil War / Peter H. Lindert -- Who chose the cities? Migrants to Moscow and St. Petersburg cities in the late nineteenth century / Barbara A. Anderson -- A repertory of stable populations / M. Demonet, J. Dupâquier, H. Le Bras -- Can anything be said about demographic trends when only aggregate vital statistics are available? / Massimo Livi Bacci -- Methods and models for analyzing historical series of births, deaths, and marriages / Ronald Demos Lee.
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