Reading List | Conference on Population, Education and Food |
Monographs:
Agriculture
Lester Brown and Hal Kane, Full House, Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity, W. W. Norton Company, New York, 1994.
Richard E. Bilsborrow and Martha Geores, Rural Population Dynamics and Agricultural Development: Issues and Consequences Observed in Latin America, Cornell University, Cornell International Institute for Food Agriculture and Development [CIIFAD], Ithaca, New York, December 1992.
Peter Hendry, Food and Population: Beyond Five Billion, Washington, D.C., Population Reference Bureau, April, 1988.
Education
W. T. S. Gould, People and Education in the Third World, Longman development Studies, John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, 1993.
Collections of Articles:
Agriculture
B. L. Turner: Goran Hyden and Robert W. Kates, (editors), Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa, Carter Lecture Series. University Press of Florida, Gainsville, 1993.
Education
Cynthia B. Lloyd (editor), Fertility, Family Size and Structure: Consequences for Families and Children, Population Council, New York, New York, 1993.
Articles:
Population Growth and Food Shortages
Tim Dyson, "World Population Growth and Food Supplies", in International Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, September 1994, pp. 361-385.
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.
John Bongaarts, "Can the Growing Human Population Feed Itself?", Scientific American, Vol. 270, No. 3, Mar. 1994, pp. 36-42.
John Bongaarts, "Population Growth and the Food Supply: Conflicting Perspectives", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, 1993, No. 53
William K. Jaeger, "The Causes of Africa's Food Crisis", World Development, Vol. 20, No. 11, November 1992, pp. 1631-1645.
Sunder Ramaswamy, "Population Pressure, Land Degradation and Sustainable Agricultural Technologies in the Sahel", Agricultural Systems, Vol 40, 1992, pp. 361-378.
Anne H. Ehrlich, "People and Food", Population and Environment, Vol 12, No. 3, Spring 1991.
David Pimentel, "Global Warming, Population Growth and Natural Resources for Food Production", Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 347-363.
Mark Rosenzweig, H. Binswanger and J. McIntire, "From Land Abundance to Land Scarcity: the Effects of Population Growth on Production Relations in Agrarian Economies" in Ronald Lee et al. (editors), Population, Food and Rural Development, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988, pp. 77-100.
Carrying Capacity
Vlaclav Smil, "How Many People Can the Earth Feed?" Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 1944, pp. 255-292.
Paul R. Ehrlich et al. "Food Security, Population and Environment", Population and Development Review, Volume 19, Number 1, March 1993, pp. 1-32.
Dennis J. Mahar, "Population Growth and Human Carrying Capacity" in World Population Trends and Their Impact on Economic Development, Dominic Salvatore (editor), New York, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 59-76.
Paul Demeny, "Demography and the Limits to Growth", in Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions, Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay M. Winter (editors), New York, Population Council, 1989, pp. 213-244.
Vlaclav Smil, "The Critical Link Between Population Growth and Nitrogen", Population Development Review, Volume 17, No. 44, December 1991, pp. 569-601.
Agricultural Intensification
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, "Population Pressure, Intensification of Agriculture and Rural-Urban Migration, in Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 40, April 1993, pp. 371-384.
Fasih u. Mahtab and Zahurul Karim, "Population and Agricultural Land Use: Toward a Sustainable Land Use System in Bangladesh" in Ambio, Vol. 21, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 50-55.
Michael Lipton, "Responses to Rural Population Growth" in Rural Development and Population, Geoffrey McNicoll and Mead Cain (editors), New York, Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 215-242.
II. POPULATION GROWTH AND EDUCATION
"Family Size and Children's Education in Thailand"
Andrew Mason, "Demographic Change, Household Resources and Schooling Decisions" in Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim, edited by Naohiro Ogawa and Gavin Jones and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Oxford University Press, South-East asia Publishing Unit, Singapore, 1993, pp. 259-282.
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. also, Population Council Research Division Working Papers, 1992, No. 40.
John Knodel and Malinee Wongsith, "Family Size and Children's Education in Thailand: Evidence from a National Sample" Demography, Vol. 28, No. 1, February 1991, pp. 119-131
John Knodel, Napaporn Havanon and Werasit Sittiitrai, "Family Size and Education of Children in the Context of Rapid Fertility Decline", Population and Development Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 1990.
"Population Growth and Public Investments in Education"
Allen C. Kelley, "The Consequences of Rapid Population Growth on Human Resources Development: The Case of Education" Durham, N.C., Duke University, 1994, mimeo.
Philip Guest, "Consequences of Population Change for Human Resources Development" in Asian Population Studies Series, No. 124, November 1993, pp. 80-91
Gavin W. Jones, "Population and Human Resources Development in Asia", in Asian Population Studies Series, No. 124, November 1993, pp. 80-91
Gavin W. Jones, "Population and Human Resources Development", Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 23-48.
Tony Johnston, "Population, Education and Sustainable Development" in African Development Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 1992, pp. 201-235.
Gavin W. Jones, "Population Dynamics and Education and Health Planning" Background Paper for Training in Population, Human Resources and Development Planning, No. 8, ILO, Geneva Switzerland, 1990.
T. Paul Schultz, "School Expenditures and Enrollments, 1960-1980: The Effects of Income, Prices, and Population Growth", in Population Growth and Economic Development, Issues and Evidence, D. Gale Johnson and Ronald Lee (editors), Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 413-478.
"Family Tradeoffs Between Child Quantity and Child Quality"
Cynthia B. Lloyd "Investing in the Next Generation: The Implications of High Fertility at the Level of the Family", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 63, 1994.
Cynthia B. Lloyd and Anastasia J. Gage Brandon, "High Fertility and Children's Schooling in Ghana: Sex Differences in Parental Contributions and Educational Outcomes", Population Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2, July 1994, pp. 293-306.
Eric A. Hanushek, "The Tradeoff Between Child Quantity and Child Quality", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 84-117.
William G. Axinn, "The Effects of Children's Schooling on Fertility Limitation", Population Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, November 1993, pp. 481-493.
Susan Hill Cochrane, M. Ali Khan and Ibrahim Khodair T. Oshiba, "Education, Income and Desired Family Size", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 38, No. 2, January, 1990, pp.313-339.
Gender and Educational Opportunities
John Knodel, "Gender and Schooling in Thailand", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 60, 1994.
Zeba A. Sathar and Cynthia Lloyd, "Who Gets Primary Schooling in Pakistan: Inequalities Among and Within Families" Population Council Research Division Working Papers, 1993, No. 52.
Cynthia B. Lloyd and Anastasia J. Gage-Brandon, "High Fertility and Children's Schooling in Ghana: Sex Differences in Parental Contributions and Educational Outcomes", Population Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2, July 1994, pp. 293-306.
Population growth and health
Kevin Kinsella, "Population and Health Transitions", International Population Reports, Series P-95, December 1992, U.S. Bureau of Census, washington, D.C., 1992.
Sonalde Desai, "The Impact of Family Size on Children's Nutritional Status: Insights From a Comparative Perspective, Population Council Research Division Working Paper, No. 46, 1992.