This chapter presents the index of the Handbook of population and family economics, volume 1A. The index contains terms such as harvest failure on vital rates, productivity and internal migration, and classical population theory.

This chapter presents the index of the Handbook of population and family economics, volume 1B. The index contains terms such as two-sex mating theories, age selectivity of migration, and economic crises on vital rates.

This paper develops a novel multilateral test approach to the problem of international comparisons. Many of the associated tests are justified as "reasonable" using the fact that they are direct analogues to properties of the cost-of-living index. Further support is bestowed upon the new...