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Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny

Edited by Geoffrey McNicoll, John Bongaarts,
Ethel P. Churchill

Forthcoming 2013

 

CONTENTS

Intergenerational Relations

    Intergenerational Transfers, the Biological Life Cycle, and Human Society
    Ronald Lee

    The Intergenerational Welfare State
    Nancy Folbre and Douglas Wolf

Low Fertility and Population Aging

    Why Demographic Suicide? The Puzzles of European Fertility
    Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

    Low Fertility in Historical Perspective
    Massimo Livi Bacci

    A Demographic Perspective on Japan’s “Lost Decades”
    Reiko Aoki

Fertility Transition Outcomes

    On Demographic and Democratic Transitions
    Tim Dyson

    Population Change among the Elderly: International Patterns
    Andrew Stokes and Samuel H. Preston

    Ruminations on Post-Transition Demography
    Geoffrey McNicoll

Policy and Program: China

    Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China’s One-Child Policy?
    Wang Feng, Yong Cai, and Baochang Gu

    Patriarchal Demographics: China’s Sex Ratio Reconsidered
    Susan Greenhalgh

Policy and Program: Africa

    Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different?
    John Bongaarts and John Casterline

    The Recent Fertility Transition in Rwanda
    Charles F. Westoff

    Fertility and Population Policy in Algeria: Discrepancies between Planning and Outcomes
    Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi and Jacques Vallin

    Working Misunderstandings: Donors, Brokers, and Villagers in Africa’s AIDS Industry
    Susan Cotts Watkins and Ann Swidler

Environment, Technology, and Wealth

    Peak Farmland and the Prospect for Land Sparing
    Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick, and Paul E. Waggoner
    This paper is published in advance of print as part of the 18 December 2012 symposium at The Rockefeller University in celebration of Paul Demeny’s 80th birthday and to mark his retirement as editor of Population and Development Review.

    National Wealth
    Partha Dasgupta

    The Last Eighty Years: Continuities and Change
    Vaclav Smil

Population Theory and Measurement

    Demographic Metabolism: A Predictive Theory of Socioeconomic Change
    Wolfgang Lutz

    Cross-Sections Are History
    Richard A. Easterlin

    The French School of Demography: Contextualizing Demographic Analysis
    Véronique Petit and Yves Charbit

    The Twilight of the Census
    David Coleman

     

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