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Classroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demographer Kenneth Wachter draws on themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to bring out the wider appeal of demography.

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Ken Wachter’s unique and fascinating approach to teaching demographic methods has shaped generations of undergraduates and graduate students at UC Berkeley. Essential Demographic Methods is a major accomplishment and makes his invaluable and original teachings available to a broad audience. -- Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
I studied with Ken Wachter and became a demographer because of the course he taught with the materials that became this book. -- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/01/2021
      ISBN13: 9780674045576, 978-0674045576
      ISBN10: 0674045572
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Classroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demographer Kenneth Wachter draws on themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to bring out the wider appeal of demography.

      Trade Review
      Ken Wachter’s unique and fascinating approach to teaching demographic methods has shaped generations of undergraduates and graduate students at UC Berkeley. Essential Demographic Methods is a major accomplishment and makes his invaluable and original teachings available to a broad audience. -- Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
      I studied with Ken Wachter and became a demographer because of the course he taught with the materials that became this book. -- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

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