The Swedish welfare model has changed since the 1970s primarily due to Sweden's financial problems, which are associated with an excessively large public sector. Sweden has the highest proportion of old people in the world, the highest proportion of cohabiting couples, the highest proportion of...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Malthus's Perspective -- 1 New Malthusian Perspectives -- I Comparative Geographies -- 2 Living Standards and Economic Stress -- 3 Economic Stress and Mortality -- 4 Family and Community -- 5 Society and Mortality -- II...