Geoffrey McNicoll, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
Geoffrey McNicoll, senior associate in the Population Council's Distinguished Colleagues unit, is co-editor of Population and Development Review. His main research interests are the comparative analysis of demographic regimes, economic and political demography, and population policy. Current research is on government roles in demographic change in strong and weak states.
McNicoll has a B.Sc. from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. in demography from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a research associate at the East-West Population Institute, Honolulu, and subsequently held various posts in the Population Council's Center for Policy Studies. From 1988 to 2000 he was a professor in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, since 1994 combining this post with his position at the Council. He has also worked in the Central Bureau of Statistics, Jakarta, and at the National Planning Association, Washington, DC.
Geoffrey McNicoll, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
A demographic perspective on Japan's 'Lost Decades' (PDF)Aoki,Reiko; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 103-112
Publication date: 2012
Cross-sections are history (PDF)
Easterlin,Richard A.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 302-308
Publication date: 2012
Demographic metabolism: A predictive theory of socioeconomic change (PDF)
Lutz,Wolfgang; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 283-301
Publication date: 2012
Fertility and population policy in Algeria: Discrepancies between planning and outcomes (PDF)
Ouadah-Bedidi,Zahia; Vallin,Jacques; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 179-196
Publication date: 2012
Fertility transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa different? (PDF)
Bongaarts,John; Casterline,John B.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 153-168
Publication date: 2012
Intergenerational transfers, the biological life cycle, and human society (PDF)
Lee,Ronald D.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 23-35
Publication date: 2012
Low fertility in historical perspective (PDF)
Livi Bacci,Massimo; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 72-82
Publication date: 2012
National wealth (PDF)
Dasgupta,Partha; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 243-264
Publication date: 2012
On demographic and democratic transitions (PDF)
Dyson,Tim; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 83-102
Publication date: 2012
Patriarchal demographics? China's sex ratio reconsidered (PDF)
Greenhalgh,Susan; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 130-149
Publication date: 2012
Peak farmland and the prospect for land sparing (PDF)
Ausubel,Jesse H.; Wernick,Iddo K.; Waggoner,Paul E.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38 (15), pp. 217-238
Publication date: 2012
Population change among the elderly: International patterns (PDF)
Stokes,Andrew; Preston,Samuel H.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 309-321
Publication date: 2012
Population, policy, and politics: How will history judge China's one-child policy? (PDF)
Feng,Wang; Cai,Yong; Gu,Baochang; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 115-129
Publication date: 2012
Reflections on post-transition demography (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 3-19
Publication date: 2012
The French school of demography: Contextualizing demographic analysis (PDF)
Petit,Veronique; Charbit,Yves; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 322-333
Publication date: 2012
The intergenerational welfare state (PDF)
Folbre,Nancy; Wolf,Douglas A.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 36-51
Publication date: 2012
The last eighty years: Continuities and change (PDF)
Smil,Vaclav; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 265-279
Publication date: 2012
The recent fertility transition in Rwanda (PDF)
Westoff,Charles F.; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 169-178
Publication date: 2012
The twilight of the census (PDF)
Coleman,David; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 334-351
Publication date: 2012
Why demographic suicide? The puzzles of European fertility (PDF)
Pritchett,Lant; Viarengo,Martina; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 55-71
Publication date: 2012
Working misunderstandings: Donors, brokers, and villagers in Africa's AIDS industry (PDF)
Watkins,Susan Cotts; Swidler,Ann; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bongaarts,John; Churchill,Ethel P.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38, pp. 197-218
Publication date: 2012
Achievers and laggards in demographic transition: A comparison of Indonesia and Nigeria (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Lee,Ronald D.; Reher,David S.
supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 37, pp. 191-214
Publication date: 2011
Legacy, policy, and circumstance in fertility transition (abstract) (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 35(4): 777-795
Publication date: 2009
Review of Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78; translated by Graham Burchell (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 33(4): 829-831
Publication date: 2007
Review of World Bank, Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 33(1): 190-192
Publication date: 2007
Taking stock of population studies: A review essay on Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, and Guillaume Wunsch (eds.), Demography: Analysis and Synthesis (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 33(3): 607-615
Publication date: 2007
Demographic dimensions of China's development (HTML)
Vermeer,Eduard B.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 115-144
Publication date: 2006
Europe's demographic future: Determinants, dimensions, and challenges (HTML)
Coleman,David; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 52-95
Publication date: 2006
India: Population change and its consequences (HTML)
Lal,Deepak; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 145-182
Publication date: 2006
Managing a world on the move (HTML)
Zolberg,Aristide R.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 222-253
Publication date: 2006
Policy lessons of the East Asian demographic transition (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 210)
Publication date: 2006
Policy lessons of the East Asian demographic transition (abstract) (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 32(1): 1-25
Publication date: 2006
Population and the natural environment: Trends and challenges (HTML)
McNeill,J.R.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 183-201
Publication date: 2006
Review of William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 32(2): 376-378
Publication date: 2006
Seeking sustainability: Cities, countryside, wilderness (HTML)
Victor,David G.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 202-221
Publication date: 2006
The political demography of the world system, 2000-2050 (PDF)
Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 213)
Publication date: 2006
The political demography of the world system, 2000-2050 (HTML)
Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 254-287
Publication date: 2006
The political economy of African population change (HTML)
Clapham,Christopher; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 96-114
Publication date: 2006
The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050 (HTML)
Publication date: 2006
World population 1950-2050: Perception and response (HTML)
Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050, pp. 1-51
Publication date: 2006
Population and sustainability (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 205)
Publication date: 2005
Review of Emmanuel Todd, After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order, translated by C. Jon Delogu (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 31(1): 178-180
Publication date: 2005
Review of Gordon H. Sellon, Jr. (ed.), Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges; A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 26-28, 2004 (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 31(4): 776-778
Publication date: 2005
Demographic future of East Asian regional integration
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Pempel,T.J.
from Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region, pp. 55-74
Publication date: 2004
Introduction: Australia's population history and prospects
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Khoo,Siew Ean; McDonald,Peter
from The Transformation of Australia's Population: 1970-2030, pp. 1-16
Publication date: 2004
Review of Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size of Nations (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 30(1): 168-170
Publication date: 2004
Review of Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 30(3): 552-555
Publication date: 2004
Adolescent fertility
Mensch,Barbara S.; Singh,Susheela; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 14-16
Publication date: 2003
Causal analysis in the population sciences: A symposium--Introduction (HTML)
Bachrach,Christine A.; McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 29(3): 443-447
Publication date: 2003
Demographic surveillance systems
Phillips,James F.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 204-206
Publication date: 2003
Demographic transition
Casterline,John B.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 210-216
Publication date: 2003
Demographic transition
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Mokyr,Joel
from The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, pp. 71-74
Publication date: 2003
Education
Lloyd,Cynthia B.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 278-283
Publication date: 2003
Encyclopedia of Population
Publication date: 2003
Modern methods of contraception
Segal,Sheldon J.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 170-174
Publication date: 2003
Population and development: An introductory view (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 174)
Publication date: 2003
Population and development: An introductory view [Arabic] (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 174)
Publication date: 2003
Spontaneous abortion
Segal,Sheldon J.; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 913-914
Publication date: 2003
Demographic factors in East Asian regional integration (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 158)
Publication date: 2002
Managing population-environment systems: Problems of institutional design
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Lutz,Wolfgang; Prskawetz,Alexia; Sanderson,Warren C.
from Population and Environment: Methods of Analysis,, pp. 144-164
Publication date: 2002
Review of Patrick J. Buchanan, The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 28(4): 797-800
Publication date: 2002
Review of Zdenèk Pavlík (ed.), Position of Demography Among Other Disciplines (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population Studies 56(1): 114-115
Publication date: 2002
The world after demographic transition
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Cho,Lee-Jay
East Asian Economic Perspectives 13(special issue): 98-105
Publication date: 2002
Fertility, proximate determinants of
Bongaarts,John; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from Encyclopedia of Population, pp. 412-417
Publication date: 2001
Fertility: Institutional and political approaches
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Smelser,Neil J.; Baltes,Paul B.
from International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 5538-5543
Publication date: 2001
Government and fertility in transitional and post-transitional societies
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Bulatao,Rodolfo A.; Casterline,John B.
from Global Fertility Transition,, pp. 129-159
Publication date: 2001
IPAT (Impact, Population, Affluence, and Technology)
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Smelser,Neil J.; Baltes,Paul B.
from International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 7903-7906
Publication date: 2001
Review of Richard Leete (ed.), Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population Studies 55(1): 97-99
Publication date: 2001
Managing population-environment systems: Problems of institutional design (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 139)
Publication date: 2000
Reflections on 'replacement migration' (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
People and Place 8(4): 1-12
Publication date: 2000
Population weights in the international order (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 126)
Publication date: 1999
Population weights in the international order (abstract) (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 25(3): 411-442
Publication date: 1999
Review of Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 25(4): 793-795
Publication date: 1999
Can the growing human population feed itself?
Bongaarts,John; Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
from The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development, pp. 306-312
Publication date: 1998
Government and fertility in transitional and post-transitional societies (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 113)
Publication date: 1998
Malthus for the twenty-first century (abstract) (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 24(2): 309-316
Publication date: 1998
The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development (U.S. edition title: The Reader in Population and Development)
Publication date: 1998
Population and poverty: A review and restatement (PDF)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 105)
Publication date: 1997
Review of John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (HTML)
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Population and Development Review 23(4): 905-908
Publication date: 1997
The governance of fertility transition: Reflections on the Asian experience
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Jones,Gavin W.; Douglas,Robert M.; Caldwell,John C.; D'Souza,Rennie M.
from The Continuing Demographic Transition, pp. 365-362
Publication date: 1997
Governance of fertility transition: Regularity and duress
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 85)
Publication date: 1996
Demography in the unmaking of civil society
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 79)
Publication date: 1995
On population growth and revisionism: Further questions
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 72)
Publication date: 1995
Institutional analysis of fertility
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 62)
Publication date: 1994
Malthusian scenarios and demographic catastrophism
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 49)
Publication date: 1993
The agenda of population studies: A commentary and complaint
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 42)
Publication date: 1992
Institutional effects on rural economic and demographic change
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Cain,Mead
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 14)
Publication date: 1990
Institutional effects on rural economic and demographic change
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Cain,Mead
from Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy,, pp. 3-42
Publication date: 1990
Land reform and family entrepreneurship in East Asia
Greenhalgh,Susan; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Cain,Mead
from Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy,, pp. 77-118
Publication date: 1990
Rural development, population growth, and the international system
Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey; Cain,Mead
from Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy,, pp. 345-365
Publication date: 1990
Social organization and ecological stability under demographic stress
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Cain,Mead
from Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy,, pp. 147-167
Publication date: 1990
Social organization and ecological stability under demographic stress
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 11)
Publication date: 1990
Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy
Publication date: 1989
Economic growth with below-replacement fertility
McNicoll,Geoffrey; Davis,Kingsley; Bernstam,Mikhail S.; Ricardo-Campbell,Rita
from Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies: Causes, Consequences, Policies,, pp. 217-238
Publication date: 1987
Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny (HTML)
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Geoffrey McNicoll, Ph.D.
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Legacy and policy in fertility transition: A comparative study of Indonesia and Nigeria (abstract) (PDF)Presentation at the XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, Marrakech, 1 October
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Publication date: 2009
Lessons of the East Asian demographic transition
Presentation at the XXVe Congrès International de la Population, Tours, France, July
McNicoll,Geoffrey
Publication date: 2005
The political demography of the world system: The next half century
Presentation at the XXVe Congrès International de la Population, Tours, France, July
Demeny,Paul; McNicoll,Geoffrey
Publication date: 2005
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