Reading list
Introduction to regression analysis, with exercises
Lecturenotes
Indirect estimation and stable population theory, with exercises
Rowland, D. (2003). "Stable and Stationary Models". Chapter 9 in Demographic Methods and Concepts. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 300-339.
Mortality: General determinants of mortality, combating infectious diseases, girls’ excess mortality, women’s status and education, AIDS
Anderson, S. and D. Ray (2010). "Missing Women: Age and Disease". Review of Economic Studies 77 (4), pp. 1262-1300. 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
Bongaarts, J. (2013). "The Implementation of Preferences for Male Offspring". Population and Development Review 39 (2), pp. 185–208. Aricle in .pdf
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
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
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
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
Lamptey, P. et al. (2002). "Facing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic". Population Bulletin 57 (3), pp. 1-41. K
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
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
United Nations Population Division (2011). Sex Differentials in Childhood Mortality. United Nations, New York, pp.1-78.
Urbanisation/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
More about how fertility can be reduced
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
Belanger, D. (2002). "Son Preference in a Rural Village in North Vietnam". Studies in Family Planning 33 (4), pp. 321-334. Article in .pdf
Bongaarts (2005). "The Causes of Stalling Fertility Transitions". Studies in Family Planning 37 (1), pp. 1-16. 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
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
Kravdal, ?. (2002). "Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Individual and Community Effects". Demography 39 (2), pp. 233-250. Article in .pdf
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
Zhang, G. and Z. Zhao (2006). "Reexamining China's Fertility Puzzle: Data Collection and Quality over the Last Two Decades". Population and Development Review 32 (2), pp. 292-332. Article in .pdf
Population growth and water scarcity
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
Consequences of population growth for food availability
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
Environmental consequences
Bongaarts, J. (1992). "Population Growth and Global Warming". Population and Development Review 18 (2), pp. 299-319. 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
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
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
Economic 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
Articles marked with K are available in a compendium which is sold in Kopiutsalget, Akademika.
NB! The syllabus also consists of about 30 additional pages that will be made available later, either as hand-outs or as articles to be downloaded from the net.