Volume 37, 2011
Issue 4, December
ARTICLES
Harvesting the Biosphere: The Human Impact
Vaclav Smil
Comparing Relative Effects of Education and Economic Resources
on Infant Mortality in Developing Countries
Elsie R. Pamuk, Regina Fuchs and Wolfgang Lutz
Son Preference in Rural China: Patrilineal Families and Socioeconomic
Change
Rachel Murphy, Ran Tao and Xi Lu
Economic Inequality and Child Stunting in Bangladesh and Kenya:
An Investigation of Six Hypotheses
Gary W. Reinbold
Population Momentum Across the Demographic Transition
Laura Blue and Thomas J. Espenshade
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
The Association of Television and Radio with Reproductive Behavior
Charles F. Westoff and Dawn A. Koffman
The Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic on Kinship Resources for Orphans
in Zimbabwe
Emilio Zagheni
ARCHIVES
Thomas Perronet Thompson on the Force of Habit and Opinion on Family
Size
BOOK REVIEWS
Yves Charbit: The Classical Foundations of Population Thought:
From Plato to Quesnay and Economic, Social and Demographic Thought
in the XIXth Century: The Population Debate from Malthus to Marx
Philip Kreager
Eileen M. Crimmins, Samuel H. Preston, and Barney Cohen (eds.)
Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries
Graziella Caselli
Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography
and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Dennis Hodgson
Short Reviews
Per Axelsson and Peter Sköuld (eds.): Indigenous Peoples and
Demography: The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics
Abhijit v. Banerjee and Ester Duflo: Poor Economics: A Radical
Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lützeler (eds.): Imploding Populations
in Japan and Germany: A Comparison
Nortin M. Hadler: Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well
in an Overtreated Society
Vaclav Smil: Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the
Policy Debate
David Wise (ed.): Explorations in the Economics of Aging
DOCUMENTS
The United Nations on the Rising Share of Deaths from Non-Communicable
Diseases
ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
Volume 38, 2012
Issue 1, March
ARTICLES
Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy: Explaining the
Post-1965 Surge from Latin America
Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren
Son Preference, Sex Selection, and Kinship in Vietnam
Christophe Z. Guilmoto
The Latin American Cohabitation Boom, 1970–2007
Albert Esteve, Ron Lesthaeghe and Antonio López-Gay
A Demographic Explanation for the Recent Rise in European Fertility
John Bongaarts and Tomáš Sobotka
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
On the Crafting of Population Knowledge
Susan Greenhalgh
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
Demographic Changes in North Korea: 1993–2008
Thomas Spoorenberg and Daniel Schwekendiek
ARCHIVES
John Ramsay McCulloch on Population Growth as a Stimulus to Invention
BOOK REVIEWS
Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason, Population Aging and the Generational
Economy: A Global Perspective
Geoffrey McNicoll
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has
Declined
Carl Haub
Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls,
and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Alaka Malwade Basu
Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People? How the African
American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Tomas Frejka
SHORT REVIEWS
Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin, The Longevity Project:
Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark
Eight-Decade Study
Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic
Reality
Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History
Charles Teller and Assefa Hailemariam (eds.), The Demographic Transition
and Development in Africa: The Unique Case of Ethiopia
World Bank, World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and
Development
DOCUMENTS
Swiss Re on Understanding and Predicting Longevity
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ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
Issue 2, June
ARTICLES
Transnationalism and Development: Mexican and Chinese Immigrant
Organizations in the United States
Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou
Sources of Population Aging in More and Less Developed Countries
Samuel H. Preston and Andrew Stokes
Family Life History and Late Mid-Life Mortality in Norway
ØYstein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, Torkild H. Lyngstad and Kenneth
Aa. Wiik
Migration as Social Movement: Voluntary Group Migration and the
Crimean Tatar Repatriation
Marina Zaloznaya and Theodore P. Gerber
Urbanization as a Global Historical Process: Theory and Evidence
from sub-Saharan Africa
Sean Fox
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
Population Policy in a Prosperous City-State: Dilemmas for Singapore
Gavin W. Jones
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler
Immigration to the UK from High-Fertility Countries: Intergenerational
Adaptation and Fertility Convergence
Sylvie Dubuc
ARCHIVES
Montaigne on Age
BOOK REVIEWS
Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd, A Convergence of Civilizations:
The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World
John Casterllne
Michele Gragnolati, Ole Hagen Jorgensen, Romero Rocha, and Anna
Fruttero, Growing Old in an Older Brazil: Implications of Population
Aging on Growth, Poverty, Public Finance, and Service Delivery
Cassio M. Turra
SHORT REVIEWS
Jennifer Clapp, Food
T. M. Devine, To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora,
1750–2010
Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires (eds.), Migrants and Migration in
Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
Robert A. McGuire and Philip R. P. Coelho, Parasites, Pathogens,
and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, Food Policy for
Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National,
and Local Food Systems
Heather Munro Prescott, The Morning After: A History of Emergency
Contraception in the United States
Noriyuki Takayama and Martin Werding (eds.), Fertility and Public
Policy: How to Reverse the Trend of Declining Birth Rates
DOCUMENTS
The IPCC on Future Climate Extremes and Their Effects
ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
Issue 3, September
ARTICLES
Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico–US Stream
1970–2000
Filiz Garip
How Similar Are Cohabitation and Marriage? Legal Approaches to
Cohabitation across Western Europe
Brienna Perelli-Harris and Nora Sánchez Gassen
Deadly Cities? Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in sub-Saharan
Africa
Isabel Günther and Kenneth Harttgen
High Sex Ratios at Birth in the Caucasus: Modern Technology to
Satisfy Old Desires
Géraldine Duthé, France Meslé, Jacques Vallin,
Irina Badurashvili and Karine Kuyumjyan
Economic Migration and Urban Citizenship in China: The Role of
Points Systems
Li Zhang
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation:
The End of Hypergamy?
Albert Esteve, Joan García-Román and Iñaki Permanyer
ARCHIVES
John Arbuthnot on the Regulation of Drugs and Medicines
BOOK REVIEWS
Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960–2010
Frank F. Furstenberg
Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, The Clash of Generations:
Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy
Andrew Mason
Robert a. LeVine, Sara E. LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Meredith
L. Rowe, and Emily Dexter, Literacy and Mothering: How Women's Schooling
Changes the Lives of the World's Children
Edward G.J. Stevenson
SHORT REVIEWS
Emma Carmel, Alfio Cerami, and Theodoros Papadopoulos (eds.), Migration
and Welfare in the New Europe: Social Protection and the Challenges
of Integration
Richard A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth and the Life Cycle: Peter
C. Engelman, A History of the Birth Control Movement in America
Karl Ittman, Dennis D. Cordell, and Gregory Maddox (eds.), The
Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge
Eric Klinenberg, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising
Appeal of Living Alone
Christine Overall, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate
DOCUMENTS
The European Commission on Pension Reform
ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
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