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| Topics to be Discussed | General Reading Assignment |
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Bloom, David and David Canning, (1998), "Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition", in Birdsall, Nancy; Kelley, Allen C.; Sinding, Steven W., eds. , (2001) Population matters: Demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 Chapter 7, pp. 165-197. (Electronic Reserve)
(Two-page report due on March 13)
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Ahituv, Avner , (2001), "Be Fruitful or Multiply: On the Interplay between Fertility and Economic Development", Journal of Population Economics v14, n1 (2001): 51-71 (Omit Sections 2,3 and 4) (Paper Reserve)
Thornton, John , (2001), "Population Growth and Economic Growth: Long-Run Evidence from Latin America", Southern Economic Journal v68, n2 (October 2001): 464-468 (Omit Section 2) (Electronic Reserve)
Kabeer, Naila (2001), "Ideas, Economics and 'the Sociology of Supply': Explanations for Fertility Decline in Bangladesh", Journal of Development Studies v38, n1 (October 2001): 29-70. (Electronic Reserve)
(1) Kling, Jeff and Lant Prichett, Where in the World is Population Growth Bad? , World Bank, 1995.(Paper Reserve)
(2) Pritchett, Lant, Population, Factor Accumulation and Productivity, World Bank Working Paper, September 28, 1994, pp. 1- 31. (Electronic Reserve)
(1) Ahlburg, Dennis A. (1998), "Julian Simon and the Population Growth Debate" by , in Population and Development Review, June 1998, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 317-327. (Electronic Reserve)
(2) Sommers, Paul M. (1971) and Daniel B. Suits, "A Cross-Section Model of Economic Growth" in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 53, 1971, pp. 121-128. (Electronic Reserve)
(3) Gupta, Sandeep K. and Paul M. Sommers, (1999), "A Simple Cross-Section Model of Economic Growth Stands the Test of Time", in Applied Economic Letters, vol. 6, no. 9, (September 1999), pp. 601-603. (Electronic Reserve)
Kelley, Allen C. and Robert M. Schmidt, (1996), "Toward a Cure for Myopia and Tunnel Vision of the Population Debate: A Dose of Historical Perspective" 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. 11-35. (Electronic Reserve)
What is the effect of transition to a market economy on fertility and mortality?
Bryant, John, "Communism, Poverty, and Demographic Change in North Vietnam, in the Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, June 1998, pp. 235-269.
Pearson, Ruth, "Renegotiating the Reproductive Bargain: Gender Analysis of Economic Transition in Cuba in the 1990s, in Development and Change, Vol. 28, No. 4, Oct. 1997, pp. 671-705.
Shkolnikov, V. M., G. A. Cornia, D. A. Leon and F. Mesle, "Causes of the Russian Mortality Crisis: Evidence and Interpretations", in World Development, Vol. 26, No. 11, November 1998., 1995-2012.
Brainerd, Elizabeth, "Market reform and Mortality in Transition Economies", in World Development, Vol. 26, No. 11, November 1998., 2013-2028.
How important are demographic factors in explaining increased income inequality?
Bishop, John A., John P. Formby and W. James Smith, "Demographic Change and Income Inequality in the United States, 1976-1989." in.............
What has been the effect of a doubling of India's population over the last 20 years?
Repetto, Robert, "The 'Second India' revisited: Population Growth, Poverty, and Environment Over Two Decades" in Population, Environment, and Development, edited by R. K. Pachuri and Lubina F. Qureshy, Tata Energy and Resources Institute, 1997. pp. 154-175.
What has been the effect of population growth on the long term growth of the Industrialized nations?
Simon, Julian, "Demographic Causes and Consequences of the Industrial Revolution" in the Journal of European Economic History, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 141-158.
Do high population growth rates reduce national savings rates?
Kelley, Allen C. and Robert M. Schmidt, "Saving, Dependency and Development", in the Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4, November 1996, pp. 365-386.
Deaton, Angus S. and Christina H. Paxon, "The Effects of Economic and Population Growth on National Saving and Inequality", in Demography, Vol. 34, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 97-114.
What are the effects of population growth in developing countries?
Kelley, Allen C., "Economic Consequences of Population Change in the Third World" in the Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 26, December 1988, pp. 1685-1728.
Cincotta, Richard P. and Robert Engleman, Economics and Rapid Change, Occasional Paper No. 3, Population Action International, 1997.
What role did the demographic transition play in the "Asian Miracle"?
Bloom, David E. and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia", in the World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, September 1998, pp. 419-455.
Higgins, Matthew, "Age Structure Dynamics in Asia and Dependence on Foreign Capital" in the Population and Development Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, June 1997, pp.,261-293.
Mason, Andrew, "Will Population Change Sustain the 'Asian Economic Miracle'?" in Asia Pacific Issues, No. 33, October 1997, pp. 1-6.
How strong are the links between population and poverty?
McNicoll, Geoffrey, Population and Poverty:A Review and Restatement, Population Council Policy Research Division Working Paper, No. 105, 1997.
