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| Topics to be Discussed | General Reading Assignment |
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Dainne J. Macunovich, "An Economsts Perspective", in Social Security, What Role for the Future?, edited by Peter A. Diamond, David Lindeman and Howard Young, National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, D. C., 1996, pp. 43-67.
(Two-page report due on February 21)
Each group has its own reading assignment, to find yours, click on your group.
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"Population and Poverty in Classical Theory: Testing a Structural Model for India", Nigel Crook in Population Studies, Vol. 50, No. 2, July 1996, pp. 173-187.
"The Economic Theory of Fertility over Three Decades", by Warren Robinson, in Population Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1, March 1997, pp. 63-75.
John C. Caldwell, "The Soft Underbelly of Development: Demographic Transition in Conditions of Limited Economic Change", in Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics, 1990, World Bank, 1991, pp. 207-253 . (Review only pages 207-215 and pages 229-238).
"The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth", Oded Galor and David N. Weil, in The American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, June 1996, pp. 374-387.
"Relative Cohort Size: Source of a Unifying theory of Global Fertility Transition?", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 235-261.
A review of microeconomic theories of fertility:
T. Paul Schultz, "Demand for Children in Low Income Countries", (Chapter 8), Handbook of Population and Family Economics, edited by Mark Rosenzweig and Oded Stark, Elsevier Science, 1997, pp. 350-430.
An econometric comparison of the Easterlin and New Home Economics Models of fertility:
Diane J. Macunovich, "A Review of Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility", (Chapter 4, in............., pp.91-157.
Is world-wide industrialization the key to ending population growth?
Piel, Gerard, "Worldwide Development or Population Explosion; Our Choice" in Challenge, July-August 1995, pp. 13-22.
How do we explain the global fertility transition?
Caldwell, John C. , "The Global Fertility Transition: the Need for a Unifying Theory" in the Population and Development Review, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 1997, pp. 803-812.
What role did Malthusianism play in the movement to restrict fertility in the Third World?
Caldwell, John C., "Malthus and the Less Developed World: the Pivotal Role of India", in the Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 675-697.
What will be the effects of population growth on economic growth?
Isaac Ehrlich and Francis Lui, "The Problem of Population Growth: A Review of the Literature from Malthus to Contemporary Models of Endogenous Population and Endogenous Growth", in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 21, 1997, pp. 205-242.
A radical-feminist perspective on modern Malthusianism:
Asoka Bandarage, "Malthusian Analysis of Global Crisis", (Chapter 1) in Women, Population and Global Crisis, Zed Books London, 1997, pp. 27-62.
Was slowing population growth a cause of the Great Depression?
Barber, Clarence L., "Declining Population Growth as a Cause of the Depression", in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 245-246.