The Institutional Context of Population Change: Patterns of Fertility and Mortality Across High-Income Nations

by Fred C. Pampel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226645258
• ISBN13: 9780226645254
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"