Fifty years have passed since the post–World War II development of demography as an
academic field. During this time, one of the central focuses of research has been the study of …

In its original formulations, demographic transition theory was a detailed description of the
mechanisms of change in mortality and fertility with con-siderations on how this would affect …

Despite the passage of half a century since 'demographic transition theory'first appeared in
English‐language demographic literature, many would agree that relatively little progress …

The idea of demographic transition was the product of a particular conception of
demographic social science as simultaneously investigative science and policymaking …

This paper deals with the fertility transition, one of the two essential components of the
demographic transition. The analysis demonstrates that by applying the cohort perspective …

THE DECLINE IN fertility that began in the late eighteenth century and will in all likelihood
come to conclusion sometime in the twenty-first century is a profound demographic …

It is generally agreed that the Second Demographic Transition is characterised by (1) a trend
toward less committed and more fragile relations between men and women, and (2) the …

Tim Dyson has given us a short book on a big subject. The last 300 years have seen three
remarkable changes in human society. One was demographic transition in much of the …

In his 1995 plenary to the European Population Conference entitled 'God has chosen to give
the easy problems to the physicists: or why demographers need theory', Guillaume Wunsch …

The first demographic transition refers to the original declines in fertility and mortality, as
witnessed in Western countries already from the 18th and 19th centuries onward, and during …