March 2006, Vol. 32, No. 1
Articles
Policy Lessons of the East Asian Demographic Transition
Geoffrey McNicoll
Young Adulthood as a Factor in Social Change in the United States
Michael J. Rosenfeld
Political History and Disparities in Safe Motherhood Between Guatemala
and Honduras
Jeremy Shiffman, Ana Lucna Garces del Valle
Long-Term Trends in Life Expectancy and Active Life Expectancy
in the United States
Kenneth G. Manton, XiLiang Gu, Vicki L. Lamb
Notes and Commentary
The Emotions and Reproductive Health
Alaka Malwade Basu
Data and Perspectives
Diverging Trends in Female Old-Age Mortality: The United States
and the Netherlands versus France and Japan
France Mesle, Jacques Vallin
Many Chinas? The Economic Diversity of China's Provinces
Gerhard K. Heilig
Archives
John Weyland on Encouragements to Population Increase
Book Reviews
Reynolds Farley and John Haaga (eds.), The American People: Census
2000, reviewed by Donald J. Bogue
Arland Thornton, Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring
Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life, reviewed by
Steven Ruggles
Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler, Governing China's Population:
From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics, reviewed by Siri Tellier
I. Bernard Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern
Life, reviewed by William Seltzer
Short Reviews
Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube, Female Infanticide
in India: A Feminist Cultural History
Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson, Population
Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
Josef Gugler (ed.), World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization,
Development and Inequality
Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, National Research Council,
M.R. Montgomery, R. Stren, B. Cohen, and H.E. Reed (eds.), Cities
Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing
World
UNAIDS/WHO, AIDS, Epidemic Update: December 2005
The World Bank, Improving Health, Nutrition, and Population Outcomes
in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the World Bank
Documents
Sub-Saharan Africa's Future: A US National Intelligence Council
Conference Report
June 2006, Vol. 32, No. 2
Articles
The Depopulation of Hispanic America after the Conquest
Massimo Livi-Bacci
Institutions and Development: A Conceptual Reanalysis
Alejandro Portes
Economic Development, Gender Inequality, and Demographic Outcomes:
Evidence from India
Prabir C. Bhattacharya
Reexamining China's Fertility Puzzle: Data Collection and Quality
over the Last Two Decades
Guangyu Zhang, Zhongwei Zhao
Notes and Commentary
On Explaining Asia's "Missing Women": Comment on Das
Gupta
Emily Oster
Cultural versus Biological Factors in Explaining Asia's "Missing
Women": Response to Oster
Monica Das Gupta
Data and Perspectives
The Impact of Past Conflicts and Social Disruption on the Elderly
in Cambodia
Zachary Zimmer, John Knodel, Kiry Sovan Kim, Sina Puch
Archives
Benjamin Constant on Government Measures to Influence Population
Growth
Book Reviews
Tim Dyson, Robert Cassen, and Leela Visaria (eds.), Twenty-First
Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment,
reviewed by Vijayendra Rao
United Nations Population Division, Living Arrangements of Older
Persons Around the World, reviewed by John Knodel
William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts
to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, reviewed
by Geoffrey McNicoll
Short Reviews
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from
the Late Teens Through the Twenties
Human Security Centre, Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace
in the 21st Century
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an
African Crisis
Landis MacKellar, Tatiana Ermolieva, David Horlacher, and Leslie
Mayhew, The Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan
Patrick Manning, Migration in World History
Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L.
McKibben, and Carol S. Walther (eds.), Fertility, Family Planning,
and Population Policy in China
Warren C. Robinson and Fatma H. El-Zanaty, The Demographic Revolution
in Modern Egypt
Tukufu Zuberi, Amson Sibanda, and Eric O. Udjo (eds.), The Demography
of South Africa
Documents
Vladimir Putin on Raising Russia's Birth Rate
Policies to Reconcile Labor Force Participation and Childbearing
in the European Union
On the Survival of Great Apes and Their Habitat
September 2006, Vol. 32, No. 3
Articles
Immigration and Ethnic Change in Low-Fertility Countries: A Third
Demographic Transition
David Coleman
Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern
California
Ruben G. Rumbaut, Douglas S. Massey, Frank D. Bean
Income Inequality, Unequal Health Care Access, and Mortality in
China
Zhongwei Zhao
Low Fertility and the State: The Efficacy of Policy
Peter McDonald
Notes and Commentary
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness
in Germany
Anke C. Zimmermann, Richard A. Easterlin
Birth Prevention in the American and French Fertility Transitions:
Contrasts in Knowledge and Practice
Etienne van de Walle, Virginie De Luca
Data and Perspectives
Black Mortality at Very Old Ages in Official US Life Tables: A
Skeptical Appraisal
Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo
Archives
Wilhelm Roscher on Means of Promoting Population Increase
Book Reviews
America's Never-Ending Debate: A Review Essay on Aristide R. Zolberg,
A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America,
reviewed by Douglas S. Massey
Colin H. Kahl, States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing
World, reviewed by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam (eds.), Categories
and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical
Demography, reviewed by Adrian C. Hayes
Short Reviews
Richard L. Harris (ed.), Globalization and Development in Latin
America
David Henley, Fertility, Food and Fever: Population, Economy and
Environment in North and Central Sulawesi, 16001930
Nie Jing-Bao, Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion
Dudley L. Poston and Michael Micklin (eds.), Handbook of Population
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population
Division, World Mortality Report 2005
UN Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and
Access to Essential Medicines, Working Group on HIV/AIDS, Combating
AIDS in the Developing World
Documents
On Integrating Immigrants in Germany
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