Fertility Change on the American Frontier

"The strength of this book comes from its use of a unique data set of Mormon genealogies that allows the authors to look back to the beginning of the demographic transition among the Mormons and to form the sophisticated, no nonsense approach to its analysis." --Warren C. Sanderson, State University of New York at Stony Brook "Very important both for historical demography and for our evaluation of the theory about, and methodology relating to, fertility change, both in Western societies and in currently developing countries." --Judith Blake, University of California, Los Angeles