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 Population Growth, Education and Agriculture

March 13 and 15, 2007


Contents:

 Agenda  Sources for Presentations
  Links  Supplements
 Handouts  PowerPoints

 


 

Agenda

(To read a paper, just click on the namr of the author. To view the sources for a paper, click on the title. )

I. OPENING REMARKS

 

II. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS

 

"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children?"

Arlene Peguero

"Does Education of Women Lower Fertility?"

Sara Shaikh

"Does Education of Others Reduce Fertility?"

Jessica Weiss

 

III. POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FOOD SUPPLY

 

"Are We Losing the Race Between Population Growth and Food Supply?"

John Krochoski and Jeffrey Olson

"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 9 Billion?"

Makely Lyon and Dekker Deacon

"Who Will Feed the Growing Populations of Asia?"

Jue Chen and Faria Rahman

 

 

IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

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Sources for Presentations

I. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS

 

"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children? "

Jensen, Eric R. and Dennis A. Ahlburg, (2002) Family Size; Unwantedness, and Child Health and Health Care Utilization in Indonesia", in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2002, pp. 43-59. (Electronic Reserve)

Shapiro, David; Tambashe, B. Oleko (2001), "Gender, Poverty, Family Structure, and Investments in Children's Education in Kinshasa, Congo", Economics of Education Review v20, n4 (August 2001): 359-375. (Electronic Reserve)

Bhat, P. N. Mari (2002), "Returning a Favor: Reciprocity between Female Education and Fertility in India", World Development v30, n10 (October 2002): 1791-1803. (Electronic Reserve)

Kelley, Allen C. (1996), "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.. (Paper Reserve)

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"Does Education of Women Lead to Lower Fertility? "

 

Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta (2001), "Fertility, Education, and Development: Evidence from India", Population and Development Review v27, n1 (March 2001): 33-63. (Electronic Reserve)

Basu, Alaka Malwade , (2002), "Why Does Education Lead to Lower Fertility? A Critical Review of Some of the Possibilities", World Development v30, n10 (October 2002): 1779-1790. (Electronic Reserve)

Diamond, Ian, (1999), "Female Education and Fertility: Examining the Links", in Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World, Committee on Population, National Research Council, Washington D.C., National Academy Press. (Electronic Reserve)

 

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"Does Education of Others Reduce Fertility?"

 

Kravdal, Oystein (2002), "Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Individual and Community Effects", Demography v39, n2 (May 2002): 233-250. (Electronic Reserve)

McNay; P. Arokiasamy; R. H. Cassen; (2003), "Why are Uneducated Women in India Using Contraception? A Multilevel Analysis", in Population Studies, Vol. 57, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 21-40. (Electonic Reserve)

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II. POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FOOD SUPPLY

 

"Are We Losing the Race Between Population Growth and Food Supply?"

 

Bongaarts, John, (1996), "Population Pressure and Food Supply in the Developing World", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No 3, September 1996, pp. 483-504. (Electronic Reserve)

Johnson, D. Gale, (1997), "On the Resurgent Population and Food Debate", in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 41, 1997, pp. 1-17. (Paper Reserve)

Johnson, D. Gale, (2002), "The Declining Importance of Natural Resources: Lessons From Agricultural Land", in Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 24, pp. 157-171. (Paper Reserve)

Kravdal, Oystein (2001), "Has Population Growth Restricted Improvements in Food Availability per Head, 1970-95?" Population Studies v55, n2 (July 2001): 105-117 (Electronic Reserve)

Smith, Lisa Catherine and Lawrence Haddad, (2001), "How Important is Improving Food Availability for Reducing child Malnutrition in Developing Countries?" in Agricultural Economics, vol. 26, (2001), pp. 191-204. (Paper Reserve)

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"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 9 Billion?

 

Gilland, Bernard (2002), "World Population and Food Supply: Can Food Production Keep Pace with Population Growth in the Next Half-Century?", Food Policy v27, n1 (February 2002): 47-63 . (Electronic Reserve)

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. (Paper Reserve)

Rosegrant, Mark W.; Sombilla, Mercedita A. (1997) "Critical Issues Suggested by Trends in Food, Population, and the Environment to the Year 2020" American Journal of Agricultural Economics v79, n5 (1997): 1467-1470. (Electronic Reserve)

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"Who Will Feed the Growing Populations in Asia?"

 

Paarlberg, Robert L. (1997), "Feeding China: A Confident View", Food Policy v22, n3 (June 1997): 269-279. (Paper Reserve)

Alexandratos, Nikos (1997), "China's Consumption of Cereals and the Capacity of the Rest of the World to Increase Exports", Food Policy v22, n3 (June 1997): 253-267. (Paper Reserve)

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Links

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Supplements

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Education

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.

 

Food

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.

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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

 

 

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Handouts

 

II. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS

 

"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children?

Erin ORourke

 

"Does Education of Women Lower Fertility?"

 

 

"Does Education of Others 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 9 Billion?"

 

"Who Will Feed the Growing Populations of Asia?"

 

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PowerPoints

(To view the PowerPoint presentation, click on the name of the author.)

 

II. POPULATION GROWTH AND INVESTMENT IN FUTURE GENERATIONS

"Does Large Family Size Reduce Investment in Children?

 

"Does Education of Women Lower Fertility?"

Sarah Shaikh

 

"Does Education of Others Reduce Fertility?"

Jessica Weiss

 

III. POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FOOD SUPPLY

 

"Are We Losing the Race Between Population Growth and Food Supply?"

John Krochoski and Jeffrey Olson

 

"Will the World Be Able to Feed A Population of 9 Billion?"

Makely Lyon and Dekker Deacon

 

"Who Will Feed the Growing Populations of Asia?"

 

 

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