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| List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Initial Conditions | |
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| Overview | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Human Origins | |
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| The 40 000 Years to 10 000 BC | |
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| The Last 12 000 Years | |
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| A Few Fundamentals of Population Growth | |
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| The Quality and Quantity of Life | |
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| The English Parson, Thomas Malthus | |
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| Measurement and Inference | |
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| The Census | |
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| A Nearly Modern Census | |
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| Modern Censuses | |
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| Some Problems of Early Modern Censuses | |
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| Models of Human Behavior | |
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| Outline | |
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| The Historical Setting | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Demographic Transition | |
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| Structural Transition of the Economy | |
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| Long-Run Changes in Economic Well-Being | |
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| Net Replacement | |
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| Dependency and Participation | |
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| How Does the Demographic Transition End or Does It? | |
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| Variation | |
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| Globalization, Macroeconomics and Population | |
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| Institutional Change and Externalities | |
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| Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population | |
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| Mortality: The Fourth Horseman | |
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| What Do People Die From? | |
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| Infant and Child Mortality | |
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| The Probability of Death and Life Expectancy | |
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| Seasonal Pattern of Death | |
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| Seasonality and Longevity | |
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| Urban Mortality | |
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| The Mortality Transition: Crude Death Rates | |
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| The Fertility Transition | |
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| The Fertility Transition | |
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| The Queen and the Anabaptists | |
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| Strategic Choice | |
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| When to Marry | |
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| The "Never Married" | |
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| Illegitimacy | |
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| The Seasonal Pattern of Birth | |
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| Disruptions | |
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| The Fertility Transition: Crude Birth Rates | |
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| Farms and Towns | |
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| Long Distance Migration | |
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| The Migratory Instinct | |
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| Who's In and Who's Out | |
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| Migration of the Unfree | |
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| Slaves | |
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| Convicts and Indentured Servants | |
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| Child Migrants | |
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| The Atlantic: Waves of Immigration | |
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| Unbalanced Cargoes | |
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| Information and Advertising | |
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| Remittances: Then and Now | |
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| There and Back Again - Reverse Migrations | |
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| Diaspora | |
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| The Chinese | |
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| The Irish | |
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| The Jews | |
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| The Barriers Go Up | |
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| The Walker Thesis, Displacement and Savings | |
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| A Final Word on Long Distance Migration | |
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| Regional Migration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The US Westward Movement and Other Frontiers | |
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| Urbanization and Industrial Change | |
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| The Rural-Urban Shift | |
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| Town and Farm and the Changing Economic Role of Children | |
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| The Great Black Migration in the US | |
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| Declining Regions: Dust Bowls and Yorkshire Coal Mines | |
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| Inter-Urban Migration | |
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| Migration: In the Neighborhood | |
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| Scotland - England | |
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| Canada-USA | |
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| The Undocumented | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Summary of Part Two -Putting It All Together | |
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| Choices and Their Consequences | |
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| The Changing Family | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Courtship and Marriage | |
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| Household and Family Size | |
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| Child Labor | |
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| Family Connections: Networks | |
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| Marital Dissolution | |
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| Married Women's Property | |
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| Poverty: One-Parent Families and Elderly Females | |
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| Health and Weil-Being | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Glasgow: Then and Now | |
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| Morbidity | |
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| Early Populations and Nutrition | |
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| Birth Weights | |
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| The Human Development Index | |
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| Obesity and the BMI | |
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| Household Space | |
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| Health and Hospital Care Systems | |
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| Macroeconomic Effects of the Industrial Transition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shocks and Echoes - the Baby Boom | |
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| Children and the Saving Shift | |
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| Intergenerational Contracts or Life Cycles: Pensions | |
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| The Work-Leisure Choice | |
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| Time Spent in Household Work | |
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| Education and Human Capital | |
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| Population Catastrophes | |
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| The Nature of Catastrophes | |
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| The Greenland Norse and the Easter Islanders | |
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| North American Native Indians | |
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| Famine | |
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| We All Fall Down! Plague | |
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| The HIV/AIDS Pandemic | |
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| When, Not If? But Not Now! Flu Pandemics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| General and Frequently Referenced Sources | |
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| Index | |