In view of the persistent interest of demographers and others in the influence of birth order on behaviour further research along these lines seems warranted.
This book is a delight, and deserves readership beyond specialist audiences of demographers, historians and economists.
However, the topics dealt with are often esoteric methodological ones which will make the book heavy going for all except a few specialist demographers.
The unique population characteristics of islands have captured the attention of demographers.
This may be regarded as conventional by demographers.
We noted in the introduction that the issue of compliance is of importance for lawyers and historians as well as for demographers.
To this end, he exploits archives from the years 1805 to 1813 that have never been used by demographers before.
Yet demographers seldom seem to address this theoretical di-culty.
