Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny
Edited by Geoffrey McNicoll, John Bongaarts,
Ethel P. Churchill
CONTENTS
Introduction
Reflections on Post-Transition Demography
Geoffrey McNicoll (PDF)
Intergenerational Relations
Intergenerational Transfers, the Biological Life Cycle, and Human Society
Ronald Lee (PDF)The Intergenerational Welfare State
Nancy Folbre and Douglas Wolf (PDF)
Nancy Folbre, recorded 18 December 2012, symposium at The Rockefeller University in celebration of Paul Demeny's retirement as editor of PDRLow Fertility, Population Aging, and the Body Politic
Why Demographic Suicide? The Puzzles of European Fertility
Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo (PDF)Low Fertility in Historical Perspective
Massimo Livi Bacci (PDF)On Demographic and Democratic Transitions
Tim Dyson (PDF)A Demographic Perspective on Japan's "Lost Decades"
Reiko Aoki (PDF)
Policy and Program: China
Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China’s One-Child Policy?
Wang Feng, Yong Cai, and Baochang Gu (PDF)Patriarchal Demographics? China’s Sex Ratio Reconsidered
Susan Greenhalgh (PDF)
Policy and Program: Africa
Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different?
John Bongaarts and John Casterline (PDF)The Recent Fertility Transition in Rwanda
Charles F. Westoff (PDF)Fertility and Population Policy in Algeria: Discrepancies between Planning and Outcomes
Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi and Jacques Vallin (PDF)Working Misunderstandings: Donors, Brokers, and Villagers in Africa’s AIDS Industry
Susan Cotts Watkins and Ann Swidler (PDF)
Environment, Technology, and Wealth
Peak Farmland and the Prospect for Land Sparing
Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick, and Paul E. Waggoner (PDF)National Wealth
Partha Dasgupta (PDF)The Last Eighty Years: Continuities and Change
Vaclav Smil (PDF)
Population Theory and Measurement
Demographic Metabolism: A Predictive Theory of Socioeconomic Change
Wolfgang Lutz (PDF)Cross-Sections Are History
Richard A. Easterlin (PDF)Population Change among the Elderly: International Patterns
Andrew Stokes and Samuel H. Preston (PDF)The French School of Demography: Contextualizing Demographic Analysis
Véronique Petit and Yves Charbit (PDF)The Twilight of the Census
David Coleman (PDF)
Selected Publications of Paul Demeny (PDF)
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