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on Japan with an eye to future possibilities. This work "demonstrates the power of demographic analysis ... as an instrument for the description of social change". It was well-received in Japan, and a Japanese translation was published by the Mainichi Press.
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in 1965. The Universities of Missouri and Minnesota also awarded her accomplishments, as did the American Sociological Society, which gave her their Stuart. A. Rice Award in 1972. The Irene B. Taeuber Award for research achievements of the
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and the modern era. Next follow sections on internal migrations, the Meiji-era expansion of the Japanese empire, the effects of fertility and mortality on the population, and a demographic view of the effects of
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Taeuber wrote and edited many books and articles, totalling "a dozen influential books and book-length reports and some 250 articles and chapters." But her most significant work was the book
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in 1931. In 1929, while still a student, she married Conrad Taeuber; he and their children Richard and Karl would also become noted demographers.
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Changes in the content and presentation of reading material in Minnesota weekly newspapers, 1860-1929
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from 1936 to 1954. Her scholarly work is credited with helping to establish the science of
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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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She died on February 24, 1974, of pneumonia and emphysema.
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in 1928, and completed her doctorate in sociology from the
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Award Criteria and Past Recipients: Irene B. Taeuber Award
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Taeuber, Irene B. (1906-1974), Papers, 1912-1981, C2158
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University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
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General Censuses and Vital Statistics in the Americas
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Meadville, Missouri
Hyattsville, Maryland
American
University of Minnesota
Demography
Office of Population Research
Thesis
Changes in the content and presentation of reading material in Minnesota weekly newspapers, 1860-1929
demographer
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
demography
Meadville, Missouri
University of Missouri
anthropology
Northwestern University
University of Minnesota
Mount Holyoke College
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Washington, DC
Population Association of America
Princeton University
Library of Congress
Bureau of the Census
Pacific Science Association
American Sociological Association
Population Association of America
Meiji period
World War II

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