Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and
animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral …

Understanding how having children influences parents' subjective well-being (“happiness”)
has great potential to explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories …

Behavioral genetics is the study of the relationship between genes and behavior. There are
four main issues addressed by this scientific discipline:(1) understanding the extent to which …

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last
three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these …

The literature on fertility and happiness has neglected comparative analysis. we investigate
the fertility/happiness association using data from the world values Surveys for 86 countries …

Demographers study population change across time and place, and traditionally they place
a strong emphasis on a long-range view of population change. This paper builds on current …

Résumé La démographie historique semble avoir pris un tournant «micro» en se
concentrant de plus en plus sur l'analyse des parcours de vie. Si l'on suit ses avocats, il ne s' …

The demographic transition is an ongoing global phenomenon in which high fertility and
mortality rates are replaced by low fertility and mortality. Despite intense interest in the …

Demography was heavily involved in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century
but, along with most other social science disciplines, largely rejected eugenic thinking in the …

Women have traditionally been at disadvantage in many countries in the world, due partly to
the strong patriarchal tradition which often impinges the rights of women. Hence women's …