This book offers an overview of the latest developments in contemporary population issues by examining the current unprecedented changes in fertility, family behavior, mortality, and migration. It explores new theoretical perspectives that seek to incorporate narratives of the future, demographic uncertainty, and determinants of unplanned pregnancy. The context of fertility is changing, and the new, important subjects of policy interventions, multi-partner fertility and complex parenthood are explored. Recent developments in assortative mating, partner choice, and relationship stability are examined in both national and international contexts, while further chapters analyze contemporary international migration. Methodological advances in modeling heterogeneity in mortality and extending period/cohort translation relationships are presented, and new analyses explore the implications of age patterns of fertility change. As such, this book provides up-to-date research spanning the entire field to illuminate contemporary developments, and will be of value to demographers, sociologists, economists, and all those interested in understanding demographic change.
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives.
Chapter
1. Social demography and
social capital: An introduction and overview.
Chapter
2. Climate change and
migration readiness, willingness, and ability.
Chapter
3. Policies and
fertility: Pronatalist vs. structural approaches.
Chapter
4. Social origin
and family formation: How marriage and parenthood affect the (re)production
of social inequalities.- Part II: Marriage and Union Formation.
Chapter
5.
The declining significance of age in support for cohabitation, 1994-2022.-
Chapter
6. Do global inequalities shape marriage market patterns? Rethinking
assortative mating in cross-national unions.
Chapter
7. Partnering with
partisans: The importance of party identity for long-term partner
preferences.
Chapter
8. Religious paradox or political divide? The
intersection of religion, politics, and place of marriage in the US.- Part
III: Contemporary Family Dynamics.
Chapter
9. U.S. womens and mens
experience of complex parenthood.
Chapter
10. The impact of blurred
work-family boundaries on parents well-being.
Chapter
11. Adults verbal
abuse toward children: The role of unintended parenthood, parenting stress,
and social psychological risk.- Part IV: Fertility and Childlessness.-
Chapter
12. Subjective well-being and fertility uncertainty during the
pandemic.
Chapter
13. Prevalence, cohort trends, and correlates of
multiple-partner fertility in Colombia.
Chapter
14. Delayed fertility and
childlessness.- Part V: Models and Methods.
Chapter
15. Generalizing the
period-cohort translation relationship to mortality and other decrements.-
Chapter
16. Heterogeneity in disability-free life expectancy: A discrete
mixture model.
Chapter
17. Exponential age-change in fertility, proportional
age-change, and stability.
Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography / Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.
