Handbook of Population

Edited by

Dudley L. Poston

Texas A&M University, College Station,

Texas, USA

Michael Micklin

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,

Maryland, USA

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers

New York Boston Dordrecht London Moscow

2005

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Series Editor:

Howard B. Kaplan, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

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