| Session |
Topic |
Readings |
| 1 |
Introduction & Measurement |
None |
| 2 |
Distal and Proximate Determinants
Natural and Controlled Fertility |
Davis, Kingsley and Judith Blake. 1956. "Social Structure and Fertility: An analytic Framework." Economic Development and Cultural Change 4(3):211-235.
Bongaarts, John. 1982. "The fertility-inhibiting effects of the intermediate fertility variables." Studies in Family Planning 13(6-7): 179-189.
Knodel, John. 1977. "Family Limitation and the Fertility Transition: Evidence from the Age Patter of Fertility in Europe and Asia." Population Studies 31(2):219-249.
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| 3 |
Fertility Decline I |
Hirshman, Charles. 1994. "Why Fertility Changes." Annual Review of Sociology 20:203-233. |
| 4 |
Discussion of Fertility Decline I |
Behrman, Jere R., Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2002. "Social Networks and Changes in Contraceptive Use Over Time: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Rural Kenya." Demography 39(4):713-738.
Schmertmann, Carl P., Joseph E. Potter, and Suzana M. Cavenaghi. 2008. "Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Pstterns in Brazil 's Fertility Transition." Population Research and Policy Review 27:1-15.
LeGrand, Thomas, Todd Keppenhaver, Nathalie Mondain, and Sara Randall. 2003. "Reassessing the Insurance Effect: A Qualitative Analysis of Fertility Behavior in Senegal and Zimbaswe."Population and Development Review 29(3):375-403. |
| 5 |
Fertility Decline II |
Jones, Gavin W. 2007. "Delayed Marriage and Very Low Fertility in Pacific Asia."Population and Development Review 33(3):453-478.
Frejka, Tomas and Tomas Sobotka. 2008. "Fertility in Europe: Diverse, Delayed and Below Replacement."Demographic Research 19:15-46.
Riley, Nancy E. 2004. "China 's Population: new Trends and Challenges." Population Bulletin 59(2). |
| 6 |
Discussion of Fertility Decline II |
DiPrete, Thomas A., S. Philip Morgan, Henriette Engelhardt and Hana Paclova. 2003. "Do Cross-national Differences in the Costs of Children Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Rites?" Population Research and Policy Review 22:439-477.
Boling, Patricia. 2008. "Demography, Culture, and Policy: Understanding Japan 's Low Fertility." Population and Development Review 34(2):307-326.
Perelli-Harris, Brienna. 2006. "The Influence of Informal Work and Subjective Well-Being on Childbearing in Post-Soviet Russia." Population and Development Review 32(4):729-753. |
| 7 |
Infertility |
Stephen, Elizabeth Harvey and Anjani Chandra. 2006. "Declining Estimates of Infertility in the United States." Fertility and Sterility 86(3):516-523.
Bitler, Marianne and Lucie Schmidt. 2006. "Health Disparities and Infertility: Impacts of State Level Insurance Mandates." Fertility and Sterility 85(4):858-865.
Wright, Victoira Clay, Jeani Chang, Gary Jeng and Maurizio Macaluso. 2008. "Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance-United States, 2005." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 57(SS-5):1-24.
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| 8 |
Fertility Decision Making |
Miller, Warren B,, Lawrence J. Severy and David J. Pasta. 2004. "A Framework for Modelling Fertility Motivation in Couples." Population Studies 58(2):193-205.
Udry, J. Richard. 1983. "Do Couples Make Fertility Plans One Birth at a Time?" Demography 20(2):117-128.
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| 9 |
Fertility Intentions |
Agadjanian, Victor. 2005. "Fraught with Ambivialence: Reproductive Intentions and Contraceptive Choices in a Sub-Saharan Fertility Transition." Population Research and Policy Review 24:617-645.
Schoen, Robert, Nan Marie Astone, Constance A. Nathanson, Young J. Kim and Nancy Murray . 1999. "The Impact of Fertility Intentions on Behavior: The Case of Sterilization." Social Biology 47(1-2):61-76.
Quesnel-Vallee, Amelie and S. Philip Morgan. 2003. "Missing the Target? Correspondence of Fertility Intentions and Behavior in the U.S.?" Population Research and Policy Review 22:497-525. |
| 10 |
Gender Inequality and Fertility |
Torr, Berna Miller and Susan E. Short. 2004. "Second Births and the Second Shift: A Reseach Note on Gender Equity and Fertility." Population and Development Review 30(1):109-130.
Mason, Karen Oppenheim and Anju Malhotra Taj. 1987. "Differences Between Women's and Men's Reproductive Goals in Developing Countries ." Population and Development Review 13(4):611-638. |
| 11 |
Differential Fertility |
Lloyd, Cynthia, Carol E. Kaufman and Paul Hewett. 2000. "The Spread of Primary Schooling in Sub-Saharan African: Implications for Fertility Changes." Population and Development Review 26(3):483-515.
McQuillan, Keven. 2004. "When Does Religion Influence Fertility?" Population and Development Review 30(1):25-56.
Koc, Ismet, Attila Hancioglu and Alanur Cavlin. 2008. "Demographic Differentials and Demographic Integration of Turkish and Kurdish Populations in Turkey." Population Research and Policy Review 27:447-457. |
| 12 |
Discussion of Differential Fertility I |
Rindfuss, Ronald R., S. Philip Morgan and Kate Offutt. 1996. "Education and the Changing Age Pattern of American Fertility: 1963-1989." Demography 33(3):277-290.
DeRose, Laurie. 2007. "Educational Reversals and First Birth Timing in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Dynamic Multilevel Approach." Demography 44(1):59-77. |
| 13 |
Discussion of Differential Fertility II |
Avong, Helen Nene. 2001. "Religion and Fertility Among the Atyap in Nigeria." Journal of Biosocial Science 33:1-2.
Westoff, Charles, and Tomas Frejka. 2007. "Religiousness and Fertility Among European Muslims." Population and Development Review 33(4):785-809. |
