B

Balkans, demographic patterns in, 130

Baltic region, mobility of the elderly in, 170 -171

Banbury, residence patterns of elderly of, 95t , 96t

Barsch, Carl, 180

Bebberbeck, migration between Pinkenhof and, 160 -161

Becedas, elderly persons of, 169

The Before. See also Secular shift in aging

aging in England during, 14 -22, 25 -27

social-group aging during, 27 -28

survival of elderly persons during, 70n

the Third Age during, 51

Behavioral changes, old age morality rates and, 353

Belgium, statistical era of demography in, 9

Belknap, Jeremy, on the demographic

system of 18th-century New

Hampshire, 250 -252

Bell, Lois, 284

Bell, Spurgeon, 322n

Bellettini, Athos, studies of marriage in Italy by, 236

Bethnal Green, 86

mortality in, 103

residence patterns of elderly of, 95t , 96t

spatial variation in residence patterns of, 94

Birth control, in Sárpilis, 141

Birth rates

in 18th-century Hungary, 130

secular shift in aging and, 14

Birth spacing within marriage, 20th-century changes in, 101

Blacks. See African-Americans

Boarders, in households, 100

Bologna, 230 -231

Bolton, residence patterns of elderly of, 95t , 96t

Bootstrapping, 119 -123

Brandes, Stanley H., on elderly persons in Spain, 169

Breast-feeding, effect on demography of aging, 28

Britain. See England

British Medieval Population (Russell), 8

Brody, Elaine M., studies of health-care responsibilities for the elderly, 291

Bulder, Elles, 72n

Bulgaria, proportion of population over age 60 in, 46