Reading guide

This guide lists the literature that the lecturers expect to be known to the students before each lecture. Please also consult the curriculum and the list of lectures.

 

February 6: Mortality

Montgomery, M. and C. Lloyd (1996). "Fertility and Child Health". In Ahlburg, D., A. Kelley and K. Mason (eds.), The Impact of Population Growth on Well-Being in Developing Countries. Springer, Berlin, pp. 37-65. K

Olshansky, S. J. et al. (1997). "Infectious Diseases – New and Ancient Threats to World Health". Population Bulletin 52 (2), pp. 2-52. K

Caldwell, J.C. (2000). "Rethinking the African AIDS Epidemic". Population and Development Review 26 (1), pp. 117-135. Article in .pdf

Feeney, G. (2001). "The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Adult Mortality in Zimbabwe". Population and Development Review 27 (4), pp. 771-780. Artikkel i .pdf

Lamptey, P. et al. (2002). "Facing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic". Population Bulletin 57 (3), pp. 1-41. K

 

February 23: Mortality

Caldwell, J.C. (1986). "Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries". Population and Development Review 12 (2), pp. 171-182 & pp. 204-211. Article in .pdf

Bloom, S.S., D. Wypij and M. Das Gupta. (2001). "Dimensions of Women's Autonomy and the Influence of Maternal Health Care Utilization in a North Indian City". Demography 38 (1), pp. 67-78. Article in .pdf

Anderson, S. and D. Ray (2010). "Missing Women: Age and Disease". Review of Economic Studies 77 (4), pp. 1262-1300. Article in .pdf

 

February 27: Mortality

Hill, K. and D. M. Upchurch (1995). "Gender Differences in Child Health: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys". Population and Development Review 21 (1), pp. 127-151. Article in .pdf

Mishra, V., T. Roy and R. Retherford (2004). "Sex Differentials in Childhood Feeding, Health Care, and Nutritional Status in India". Population and Development Review 30 (2), pp. 269-295. Article in .pdf

United Nations Population Division (2011). Sex Differentials in Childhood Mortality. United Nations, New York, pp.1-78

 

March 2: Son preferences

Bongaarts, J. (2013). "The Implementation of Preferences for Male Offspring".Population and Development Review 39 (2), pp. 185–208. Aricle in .pdf

Belanger, D. (2002). "Son Preference in a Rural Village in North Vietnam". Studies in Family Planning 33 (4), pp. 321-334. Article in .pdf

 

March 6: Family planning

Joshi, S. and T. Schultz (2013). "Family Planning and Women’s and Children’s Health: Long-Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh".Demography 50 (1), pp. 149-180. Article in .pdf

Baochang, G. et al. (2007). "China's Local and National Fertility Policies at the End of the Twentieth Century". Population and Development Review 33 (1), pp. 129-147.Article in .pdf

Dougherty, H. and K. Kammeyer (1995). "China: A Case Study of Demographic Control". In An Introduction to Population. The Guilford Press, New York, pp. 228-237. K

 

March 9: Family planning

Rutenberg, N. and S.C. Watkins (1997). "The Buzz Outside the Clinics: Conversations and Contraception in Nyanza Province, Kenya". Studies in Family planning 28 (4), pp. 290-310. Article in .pdf

Stoebenau, K. and T. Valente (2003). "Using Network Analysis to Understand Community-Based Programs: A Case Study from Highland Madagascar". International Family Planning Perspectives 29 (4), pp. 167-173. Article in .pdf

 

 

March 16: Stable Populations

Rowland, D. (2003). "Stable and Stationary Models". Chapter 9 in Demographic Methods and Concepts. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 300-339.

 

 

 March 20: Education & fertility + Consequences

Kravdal, ?. (2002). "Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Individual and Community Effects". Demography 39 (2), pp. 233-250. Article in .pdf

Heilig, G.K. (1994). "Neglected Dimensions of Global Land-Use Change: Reflections and Data". Population and Development Review 20 (4), pp. 831-860. Article in .pdf

 

March 27: Consequences

Dyson, T. (1999). "World Food Trends and Prospect to 2025". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (11), pp. 5929-5936. Article in .pdf

Kravdal, ?. (2001). "Has Population Growth Restricted Improvements in Per Capita Food Availability, 1970-1995". Population Studies 55 (2), pp. 105-117. Article in .pdf

Smil, V. (1994). "How Many People Can the Earth Feed?". Population and Development Review 20 (2), pp. 255-292. Article in .pdf

 

April 7: Fertility

Bongaarts (2005). "The Causes of Stalling Fertility Transitions". Studies in Family Planning 37 (1), pp. 1-16. Article in .pdf

Hoodfar, H and S. Assadpour (2000). "The Politics of Population Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran". Studies in Family Planning 31 (1), pp. 19-34. Article in .pdf

 

April 13: Consequences

Falkenmark, M. (1997). "Meeting Water Requirements for an Expanding World Population". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 352 (1356), pp. 929-936. Article in .pdf

Roudi-Fahimi, F., L. Creel and R.-M. De Souza (2002). "Finding the Balance: Population and Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa". Population Reference Bureau, MENA Policy Brief. Report in .pdf

Panayotou.T. (1994) "Population, Environment, and Development Nexus". In Cassen, R. (ed.), Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, pp. 149-180. K

 

 April 17: Consequences

Bongaarts, J. (1992). "Population Growth and Global Warming". Population and Development Review 18 (2), pp. 299-319. Article in .pdf

O'Neil, B., et al. (2010). "Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emission". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (41), pp. 17521-17526. Article in .pdf

 

April 20: Urbanisation and Migration

Martin, P. and J. Widgren (2002). "International Migration: Facing the Challenge".Population Bulletin 57 (1), pp. 1-40. K

Parnell, M. (1993). "Why People Move". Chapter 4 in Population Movements and the Third World. Routledge, London, pp. 74-106. K

 

 April 24: Consequences

Kelley, A. and R. Schmidt (2005). "Evolution of Recent Economic-Demographic Modeling: A Synthesis". Journal of Population Economics 18 (2), pp. 275-300. Article in .pdf

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