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I. OPENING REMARKS
II. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS
"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? - YES"
"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? - NOT MUCH!"
"Does Education of Parents and Children Reduce Fertility?"
III. POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FOOD SUPPLY
"Are We Losing the Race Between Population Growth and Food Supply?"
"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 10 Billion?- NO!"
"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 10 Billion?- YES!"
IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
I. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS
"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? - YES!"
Cynthia B. Lloyd, Carol E. Kaufman and Paul Hewett, "The Spread of Primary Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Fertility Change, in Population and Develoment Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, September 2000, pp. 483-515. (Materials from pp 491-500 may be omitted.)
Deborah S. DeGraff, Richard E. Bilsborrow and Alejandro Herrin, "Children's Education in the Philippines: Does High Fertility Matter?, in Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15, June 1996, pp. 219-247.
John Knodel, "Fertility Decline and Children's Education in Thailand", in Fertility, Family Size and Structure: Consequences for Families and Children, Population Council, 1993, pp. 267-296.
"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? - NOT MUCH!"
Allen C. Kelley, "The Consequences of Rapid Population Growth on Human Resource Development: The Case of Education", in The Impact of Population Growth on Well-Being in Developing Countries, Dennis A. Ahlburg, Allen C. Kelley and Karen Oppenheim Mason (editors), Springer Verlag, New York, 1996, pp. 67-138.
Truong Si Anh, John Knodel David Lam and Jed Friedman, "Family Size and Children's Education in Vietnam", Demography, Vol. 35, No. 1, Feb. 1998, pp. 57-70.
"Does Education of Parents and Children Reduce Fertility?"
Teresa Castro Martin, "Women's Education and Fertility: Results from 26 Demographic and Health Surveys", Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 26, No. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 187-202.
W. T. S. Gould, "Education and Population Growth" in People and Education in the Third World, by W. T. S. Gould, Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex, England, 1993, Chapter 5, pp. 123-145.
William G. Axinn, "The Effects of Children's Schooling on Fertility Limitation", Population Studies, Vol. 47, November 1993, No. 3, pp. 481-493.
John Cleland and Shireen Jejeebhoy, "Maternal Schooling and Fertility: Evidence from Censuses and Surveys", in "Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behavior: Experience from Developing Countries, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, Chapter 3, pp. 72-106.
II. POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FOOD SUPPLY
"Are We Losing the Race Between Population Growth and Food Supply?"
John Bongaarts, "Population Pressure and Food Supply in the Developing World", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No 3, September 1996, pp. 483-504.
Johnson, D. Gale, "On the Resurgent Population and Food Debate", in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 41, 1997, pp. 1-17.
Dennis Avery, "The World's Rising Food Productivity" in The State of Humanity, edited by Julian Simon, Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 376-392.
"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 10 Billion?- NO!"
Anne H. Ehrlich, "People and Food", Population and Environment, Vol 12, No. 3, Spring 1991, pp.221-229.
Paul R. Ehrlich et al. "Food Security, Population and Environment", Population and Development Review, Volume 19, Number 1, March 1993, pp. 1-32.
Lester Brown and Hal Kane, "Food Insecurity" in Full House, Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity, W. W. Norton Company, New York, 1994, Ch 2, pp. 37-48.
"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 10 Billion?- YES!"
Gerhard K. Helig, "How Many People Can Be Fed on Earth?" in Wolfgang Lutz, (editor), The Future Population of the World: What Can We Assume Today?, Earthscan Publications, London, 1994, Ch. 10, pp. 207-261.
Vaclav Smil, "How Many People Can the Earth Feed?", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 1994., pp. 255-292.
Julian Simon, "What Are the Limits on Food Production?" in The Ultimate Resource II, Princeton University Press, 1996, Chapter 6, pp. 97-106.
Does the education of young women really reduce fertility in developing countries?
Appleton, Simon, "How Does Female Education Affect Fertility? A structural Model for the Cote D'Ivoire", in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1996, pp. 139-166.
Is a little bit of education for girls in central Africa a bad thing?
Shapiro, David and B. Oleko Tambashe, "Education, employment and fertility in Kinshasa and prospects for change in reproductive behavior" in Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 16, 1997, pp. 259-287.
Is there a way to escape from the Malthusian trap?
Michael Lipton, "An Escape from the Malthus Rectangle? Poverty and Conversion Efficiency", in the Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 433-461.
Is the food problem a 'population problem' or a 'poverty' problem?
Menza, Valeria and Lupien, John R. , "World Population and Nutritional Well-being" (Chapter 7) in Population and Global Security, edited by Nicholas Polunin and Mohammad Nazim, United Nations Population Fund, 1994, pp. 127-139.
Daily, Gretchen et al., "Food Production, Population Growth and the Environment" in Science, Vol.281, No. 5381, Aug 28, 1998, pp. 1,291-1,292.
Why did world grain production decline?
Tim Dyson, "Population Growth and Food Production: Recent Global and Regional Trends" Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 397-411.
How does population growth affect the supply of food?
Pimentel, Xuewen Huang, Ana Cordova and Marcia Pimentel, "Impact of Population Growth on Food Supplies and the Environment", in Population and the Environment, Vol. 19, No. 1, September 1997, pp. 9-14.
How can we avoid famines?
Dasgupta, Partha, "The Economics of Food", (Chapter 2) in Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People, edited by J. C. Waterlow et al. Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 19-36
II. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS
"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? - YES",
"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? - NOT MUCH!"
"Does Education of Parents and Children Reduce Fertility?"
III. POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FOOD SUPPLY
"Are We Losing the Race Between Population Growth and Food Supply?"
"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 10 Billion?- NO!"
"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 10 Billion?- YES!"
II. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS