The Children of Eve by Cain, Louis P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title page Copyright page Dedication List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices

Figures Tables Appendices

Preface

Organization of the Book

Acknowledgments Part One: Initial Conditions

Chapter One: Overview

1.1 Introduction 1.2 Human Origins 1.3 The 40 000 Years to 10 000 BC 1.4 The Last 12 000 Years 1.5 A Few Fundamentals of Population Growth 1.6 The Quality and Quantity of Life 1.7 The English Parson, Thomas Malthus 1.8 Measurement and Inference 1.9 The Census 1.10 Models of Human Behavior 1.11 Outline

Chapter Two: The Historical Setting

2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Demographic Transition 2.3 Structural Transition of the Economy 2.4 Long-Run Changes in Economic Well-Being 2.5 Net Replacement 2.6 Dependency and Participation 2.7 How Does the Demographic Transition End or Does It? 2.8 Variation 2.9 Globalization, Macroeconomics and Population 2.10 Institutional Change and Externalities Appendix 2.1

Part Two: Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population

Chapter Three: Mortality: The Fourth Horseman

3.1 What Do People Die From? 3.2 Infant and Child Mortality 3.3 The Probability of Death and Life Expectancy 3.4 Seasonal Pattern of Death 3.5 Seasonality and Longevity 3.6 Urban Mortality 3.7 The Mortality Transition: Crude Death Rates

Chapter Four: The Fertility Transition

4.1 The Fertility Transition 4.2 The Queen and the Anabaptists 4.3 Strategic Choice 4.4 When to Marry 4.5 The “Never Married” 4.6 Illegitimacy 4.7 The Seasonal Pattern of Birth 4.8 Disruptions 4.9 The Fertility Transition: Crude Birth Rates 4.10 Farms and Towns

Chapter Five: Long Distance Migration

5.1 The Migratory Instinct 5.2 Who’s In and Who’s Out 5.3 Migration of the Unfree 5.4 The Atlantic: Waves of Immigration 5.5 Unbalanced Cargoes 5.6 Information and Advertising 5.7 Remittances: Then and Now 5.8 There and Back Again – Reverse Migrations 5.9 Diaspora 5.10 The Barriers Go Up 5.11 The Walker Thesis, Displacement and Savings 5.12 A Final Word on Long Distance Migration Appendix 5.1

Chapter Six: Regional Migration

6.1 Introduction 6.2 The US Westward Movement and Other Frontiers 6.3 Urbanization and Industrial Change 6.4 The Rural-Urban Shift 6.5 Town and Farm and the Changing Economic Role of Children 6.6 The Great Black Migration in the US 6.7 Declining Regions: Dust Bowls and Yorkshire Coal Mines 6.8 Inter-Urban Migration 6.9 Migration: In the Neighborhood 6.10 The Undocumented 6.11 Convergence 6.12 Summary of Part Two – Putting It All Together

Part Three: Choices and Their Consequences

Chapter Seven: The Changing Family

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Courtship and Marriage 7.3 Household and Family Size 7.4 Child Labor 7.5 Family Connections: Networks 7.6 Marital Dissolution 7.7 Married Women’s Property 7.8 Poverty: One-Parent Families and Elderly Females

Chapter Eight: Health and Well-Being

8.1 Introduction 8.2 Glasgow: Then and Now 8.3 Morbidity 8.4 Early Populations and Nutrition 8.5 Birth Weights 8.6 The Human Development Index 8.7 Obesity and the BMI 8.8 Household Space 8.9 Health and Hospital Care Systems

Chapter Nine: Macroeconomic Effects of the Industrial Transition

9.1 Introduction 9.2 Shocks and Echoes – the Baby Boom 9.3 Children and the Saving Shift 9.4 Intergenerational Contracts or Life Cycles: Pensions 9.5 The Work-Leisure Choice 9.6 Time Spent in Household Work 9.7 Education and Human Capital

Chapter Ten: Population Catastrophes

10.1 The Nature of Catastrophes 10.2 The Greenland Norse and the Easter Islanders 10.3 North American Native Indians 10.4 Famine 10.5 We All Fall Down! Plague 10.6 The HIV/AIDS Pandemic 10.7 When, Not If? But Not Now! Flu Pandemics 10.8 Summary Appendix 10.1

Part Four: Conclusions

Chapter Eleven: Concluding Remarks

General and Frequently Referenced Sources Index