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The institutional context of population change : patterns of fertility and mortality across high-income nations / Fred C. Pampel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Population and development (Chicago, Ill.)Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226645278
  • 0226645274
  • 0226645258
  • 9780226645254
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Institutional context of population change.DDC classification:
  • 304.6/09172/2 21
LOC classification:
  • HB883.5 .P35 2001eb
NLM classification:
  • QH352
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. The institutional context of population change -- pt. 2. Fertility -- pt. 3. Mortality -- pt. 4. Sex differences in mortality.
Summary: Annotation Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for men and women who are unable to work and have policies to ease the burdens of working mothers. The United States, in contrast, does not. This study demonstrates how public policy differences such as these affect childbearing among working women, moderate pressures for suicide and homicide among the young and old, and shape sex difference in suicide and homicide. The Institutional Context of PopulationChange cuts across numerous political and sociological topics, including political sociology, stratification, sex and gender, and aging. It persuasively shows the importance of public policies for understanding the demographic consequences of population change and the importance of demographic change for understanding the consequences of public policies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.

pt. 1. The institutional context of population change -- pt. 2. Fertility -- pt. 3. Mortality -- pt. 4. Sex differences in mortality.

Print version record.

Annotation Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for men and women who are unable to work and have policies to ease the burdens of working mothers. The United States, in contrast, does not. This study demonstrates how public policy differences such as these affect childbearing among working women, moderate pressures for suicide and homicide among the young and old, and shape sex difference in suicide and homicide. The Institutional Context of PopulationChange cuts across numerous political and sociological topics, including political sociology, stratification, sex and gender, and aging. It persuasively shows the importance of public policies for understanding the demographic consequences of population change and the importance of demographic change for understanding the consequences of public policies.

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