Robert Schoen (ed.): Analytical Family Demography
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Robert Schoen (ed.): Analytical Family Demography Zuzanna Brzozowska1,2 Accepted: 30 October 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Although the unprecedented changes in family life started already half a century ago, “the tools for analyzing modern family demography are still at an early stage of development”. This observation, stated on page 2, serves as a rationale for the volume “Analytical Family Demography”, edited by Robert Schoen, which gathers contributions of distinguished family demographers. The editorial Introduction (chapter 1) is followed by 12 chapters grouped in four parts. The first one, Analyzing Theories of Family Demography, comprises three papers. In chapter 2, E. Carlson proposes a reformulation of the second demographic transition (SDT) theory; in chapter 3, M. Ní Bhrolcháin and É. Beaujouan put forward a new approach to study the reproductive goals, in which they “can be thought as constructed” (p. 28) throughout the life course. Chapter 4, by B. Laplante, J. M. Vieira and G. C. F. R. R. Barnabé, offers a fascinating insight into the historical and cultural context of marital and consensual unions in Brasil where their meaning varies across social strata. The second part of the book, At the Analytical Frontier, includes three papers. Chapter 5, by N. Barban and M. Sironi, demonstrates how to use sequence analysis to identify typical trajectories of family formation in a comparative setting. In chapter 6, A. Grow and J. van Bavel provide a concise introduction into agentbased modelling and present the abridged versions of their three journal articles on assortative mating. R. A. Kroeger and D. A. Powers advocate in chapter 7 for using dyadic data methods to analyse the effect of respondent’s and partner’s gender on self-rated health. Part three, Analytical Applications, gives us a glimpse into formal demography. In chapter 8, R. Schoen shows how the size of kinship networks varies with fertility levels and patterns of parity progression, whereas in chapter 9, he explores what implications the assumption of parity-invariant age-specific birth rates has for birth spacing and sibship composition by gender and birth order. The authors of chapter 10, J. B. Stykes and K. B. Guzzo, draw attention to a problem * Zuzanna Brzozowska [email protected] 1
Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
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that has gained importance in recent decades: the estimation of multiple-partner fertility. They compare different measurement approaches and make recommendations about future data collection. Chapter 11, by R. Gisser and D. Ediev, uses formal demographic framework to give an outlook on how many people will have an ancestor alive in ageing societies (Austria and Europe) in the future. The fourth part, Analytical Overviews, closes the book. In chapter 12, N. Keilman reviews family projection methods, discussing the conceptual issues around the definition of family and evaluating the projection model
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