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| Topics to be Discussed | General Reading Assignment |
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Richard Johnson, "Economic Policy Implications of World Demographic Change".in Economic Review (Kansas City) Winter 2004, vol. 89. no. 1, pp39-64 (Electronic Reserve)
(Two-page report due on March 1)
Each group has its own reading assignment, to find yours, click on your group.
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Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. (2002); "Population Growth, Technological Adoption, and Economic Outcomes in the Information Era"; Review of Economic Dynamics v5, n4 (October 2002): 749-774 (Omit Sections 2 and 3) (Electronic Reserve)
Warren Robinson (1997), "The Economic Theory of Fertility over Three Decades", Population Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1, March 1997, pp. 63-75. (Electronic Reserve)
Boldrin, Michele; Jones, Larry E. (2002); Mortality, Fertility, and Saving in a Malthusian Economy; Review of Economic Dynamics v5, n4 (October 2002): 775-814 (Omit Sections 3, 4 and 5) (Electronic Reserve)
Galor, Oded and David N. Weil, (1996), "The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth", in The American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, (June 1996), pp. 374-387. (Electronic Reserve)
Macunovich, Diane J. (2000), "Relative Cohort Size: Source of a Unifying Theory of Global Fertility Transition?", Population and Development Review v26, n2 (June 2000): 235-61 (Omit section on Statistical Tests).(Electronic Reserve)
A review of microeconomic theories of fertility:
T. Paul Schultz, "Demand for Children in Low Income Countries", (Chapter 8), Handbook of Population and Family Economics, edited by Mark Rosenzweig and Oded Stark, Elsevier Science, 1997, pp. 350-430.
An econometric comparison of the Easterlin and New Home Economics Models of fertility:
Diane J. Macunovich, "A Review of Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility", (Chapter 4, in............., pp.91-157.
Is world-wide industrialization the key to ending population growth?
Piel, Gerard, "Worldwide Development or Population Explosion; Our Choice" in Challenge, July-August 1995, pp. 13-22.
How do we explain the global fertility transition?
Caldwell, John C. , "The Global Fertility Transition: the Need for a Unifying Theory" in the Population and Development Review, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 1997, pp. 803-812.
What role did Malthusianism play in the movement to restrict fertility in the Third World?
Caldwell, John C., "Malthus and the Less Developed World: the Pivotal Role of India", in the Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 675-697.
What will be the effects of population growth on economic growth?
Isaac Ehrlich and Francis Lui, "The Problem of Population Growth: A Review of the Literature from Malthus to Contemporary Models of Endogenous Population and Endogenous Growth", in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 21, 1997, pp. 205-242.
A radical-feminist perspective on modern Malthusianism:
Asoka Bandarage, "Malthusian Analysis of Global Crisis", (Chapter 1) in Women, Population and Global Crisis, Zed Books London, 1997, pp. 27-62.
Was slowing population growth a cause of the Great Depression?
Barber, Clarence L., "Declining Population Growth as a Cause of the Depression", in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 245-246.