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This is the most comprehensive reference collection on population in the last 40 years. It represents the first effort to assess the entire field. The chapter authors are among the leading contributors to demographic scholarship over the past four decades.

Prologue; Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Michael Micklin -- Part I. Population Structure -- Chapter 1. Age and Sex; Dudley L. Poston, Jr -- Chapter 2. Population Distribution and Suburbanization; Avery M. Guest and Susan K. Brown -- Chapter 3. Family Demography; Lynne Casper -- Chapter 4. Demography of Gender; Nancy E. Riley -- Chapter 5. Demography of Aging; Marc Garcia and Kyriakos Markides -- Chapter 6. Demography of Race and Ethnicity; Rogelio Saenz and M. Cristina Morales -- Chapter 7. Demography of Children; William P. O'Hare -- Chapter 8. Demography of Adoption; Mary Ann Davis -- Chapter 9. Demography of the Labor Force; Joachim Singelmann and Teresa A. Sullivan -- Chapter 10. Demography of Sexuality; Amanda K. Baumle -- Chapter 11. Demography of Poverty; Joachim Singelmann -- Chapter 12. Demography of Inequality; Mark Mather and Beth Jarosz -- Part II. Population Processes -- Chapter 13. Fertility; S. Philip Morgan -- Chapter 14. Infant Mortality; Bethany DeSalvo and Maria Perez Patron -- Chapter 15. Adult Mortality; Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer and Patrick M. Krueger -- Chapter 16. Internal Migration; Michael J. White and David P. Lindstrom -- Chapter 17. International Migration; Susan K. Brown and Frank D. Bean -- Chapter 18. Demography of Social Stratification; Arthur Sakamoto and Daniel A. Powers -- Part III. Population and the Social Sciences -- Chapter 19. Social Demography; David L. Brown -- Chapter 20. Population Psychology; Toni Falbo and Joseph L. Rodgers -- Chapter 21. Organizational and Corporate Demography; Glenn R. Carroll and Olga M. Khessina -- Chapter 22. Urban Demography; Mark A. Fossett -- Chapter 23. Rural Demography; Katherine J. Curtis and László J. Kulcsár -- Chapter 24. Anthropological Demography; David I. Kertzer -- Chapter 25. Economic Demography; Andrew Mason -- Chapter 26. Historical Demography; Myron Gutmann and Emily Merchant -- Chapter 27. Ecological Demography; Dudley L. Poston, Jr -- Chapter 28. Biodemography; James R. Carey and James W. Vaupel -- Chapter 29. Mathematical Demography; Kenneth C. Land, Claire Yang and Yi Zeng -- Chapter 30. Political Demography; Michael S. Teitelbaum -- Part IV. Applied Demography -- Chapter 31. Fertility Planning; John Cleland and Joseph E. Potter -- Chapter 32. Small Area and Business Demography; Peter A. Morriso and Stanley K. Smith -- Chapter 33. The Demography of Population Health; David F. Warner and Mark D. Hayward -- Chapter 34. Population Policy; John F. May -- Epilogue: Needed Research in Demography; Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Amanda K. Baumle

This paper examines the effect of son preference on the hazards of having a second and a third birth. With data from the Two-per-thousand National Sample Survey on Fertility and Contraception conducted in 1988 by the State Family Planning Commission of China, the hazard of having a second birth among 62+ thousand married women who have had a first birth, and the hazard of having a third birth among 43+ thousand married women who have had two births was examined. These two hazards (i.e. the hazard of moving from the first to the second birth, and the hazard of moving from the second to the third birth) were analysed by estimating Cox proportional hazard models. The major covariate in the first analysis is whether or not the first-born was a daughter. In the second analysis the main covariate is whether both of the first two children were girls. In both models seven covariates known to have independent effects on the transition to a second (or third) birth are controlled for, namely, whether the woman is a Han, whether she is a farmer, her age at the birth of the first (or second) child, whether she had her first (or second) birth prior to the initiation in 1979 of the one-child policy, and three dummy variables reflecting her level of education. The results show the important influence of son preference on the hazard of having another birth.

This article analyzed the economic attainment patterns of Asian-born male and female immigrants to the United States using hierarchical linear models (HLM). Specifically, it examined to what extent selected measures of human capital and cultural capital characteristics affect the levels of earnings of male and female Asian-born immigrants. The principal data source for this article came from the five percent file of individual census questionnaires from the Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1990 US Census of Population. In general, the results of the study conform to previous research, i.e., educational attainment at both the micro and macro levels was an important predictor of earnings achievement. As to cultural capital or country level variables, the analysis did not show evidence of statistically significant effects on earnings. The final section discusses the advantages of using the HLM approach as well as issues for further research.

This article is concerned with the economic attainment patterns of foreign-born male workers in the United States in 1980. The economic attainment patterns of males born in 92 countries of the world are examined and are compared among themselves, as well as among the seven principal U.S.-born groups of Anglos, Afro-American, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians. For all foreign-born groups, the article examines the degree to which such individual-level factors as educational attainment, labor market experience, and so forth account for their variation in economic attainment. We conclude that although microlevel characteristics are not the complete answer, they are important for most foreign-born populations in explaining their variation in earnings.

Migration experiences of southern & nonsouthern metropolitan areas in the US are compared. Hypotheses from human ecology are used to examine the degree to which variations among migration experiences of southern & nonsouthern metropolitan areas can be accounted for by differences in their sustenance organizations. These are tested with 1970 data from 88 southern & 155 nonsouthern SMSAs. Support is found for the ecological hypotheses advanced. Major factors determining net migration varied considerably by region. 2 Tables. Modified HA.