Volume 42, 2016
Issue 4, December
ISSUE INFORMATION
ARTICLES
How Dangerous Is Obesity? Issues in Measurement and Interpretation
Andrew Stokes and Samuel H. Preston
The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications
Albert Esteve, Christine R. Schwartz, Jan van Bavel, Iñaki
Permanyer, Martin Klesment and Joan García-Román
The Surprising Decline in the Non-Marital Fertility Rate in the United States
Daniel Schneider and Alison Gemmill
The Effect of Education on the Demographic Dividend
Elisenda Rentería, Guadalupe Souto, Iván Mejía-Guevara
and Concepció Patxot
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
Why Brexit? The Toxic Mix of Immigration and Austerity
Stuart Gietel-Basten
A Demographic Rationale for Brexit
David Coleman
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
In the Pursuit of Sons: Additional Births or Sex-Selective Abortion in Pakistan?
Batool Zaidi and S. Philip Morgan
ONLINE COMMENT AND REJOINDER
Online Comment and Rejoinder
ARCHIVES
Thomas Chalmers on the Taste for Comfort as a Limit on Population
BOOK REVIEWS
Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus:
Rereading the Principle of Population Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2016. 368 p.
Dennis Hodgson
Alon Tal The Land Is Full: Addressing Overpopulation in Israel New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2016. 408 p.
Calvin Goldscheider
SHORT REVIEWS
Gøsta Esping-Andersen Families in the 21st Century Stockholm: SNS-Förlag,
2016. 113 p.
Landis MacKellar
John H. Goldthorpe Sociology as a Population Science Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2016. ix + 168 p.
Geoffrey McNicoll
Michael J. White (ed.). International Handbook of Migration and Population
Distribution New York: Springer, 2016. 636 p.
John Casterline
WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and United Nations Population Division
Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2015 Geneva: World Health
Organization, 2015.
John Bongaarts
DOCUMENTS
The National Research Council on the Fiscal Consequences of US Immigration
The ILO on Young People's Desire to Migrate
ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Volume 43, 2017
Issue 1, March
ISSUE INFORMATION
ARTICLES
Has Child Marriage Declined in sub-Saharan Africa? An Analysis of Trends in
31 Countries
Alissa Koski, Shelley Clark and Arijit Nandi
Fertility by Birth Order among the Descendants of Immigrants in Selected European
Countries
Hill Kulu, Tina Hannemann, Ariane Pailhé, Karel Neels,
Sandra Krapf, Amparo González-Ferrer and Gunnar Andersson
The Effect of Birth Spacing on Child Mortality in Sweden, 1878–1926
Joseph Molitoris
A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control,
1915–1984
Emily Klancher Merchant
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
Patrilineality, Son Preference, and Sex Selection in South Korea and Vietnam
Andrea den Boer and Valerie Hudson
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
A Profile of Germany's Refugee Populations
Sabrina Juran and P. Niclas Broer
ARCHIVES
Marquis de Chastellux on Population and Power
BOOK REVIEWS
Henry T. Greely The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 400 p.
Bernard M. Dickens
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine The Economic and
Fiscal Consequences of Immigration Washington, DC: National Academies
Press, 2016. 508 p.
Ronald Lee
Ulf Hannerz Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Future Scenarios
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xi + 295 p.
Geoffrey McNicoll
SHORT REVIEWS
Umar G. Benna and Shaibu Bala Garba (Eds.) Population Growth and Rapid Urbanization
in the Developing World IGI Global, 2016. 358 p.
Mark Montgomery
Tony Champion and Jane Falkingham (Eds.) Population Change in the United Kingdom
London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. xvi + 259 p
Landis MacKellar
Robert J. Mayhew (Ed.) New Perspectives on Malthus Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2016. 340 p.
Dennis Hodgson
Nancy E. Riley Population in China Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017. xiii
+ 237 p.
Geoffrey McNicoll
Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe (Eds.) Low and Lower Fertility: Variations
across Developed Countries Springer, 2015. 196 p.. Ronald R. Rindfuss
and Minja Kim Choe (Eds.) Low Fertility, Institutions, and their
Policies: Variations across Industrialized Countries Springer, 2016.
303 p.
John Bongaarts
Bedprakas SyamRoy India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population Springer
International, 2017. xix + 388 p.
Geoffrey McNicoll
DOCUMENTS
Identity Systems and Civil Registration in Asia
Restoration of the US “Mexico City Policy” by President Donald
J. Trump
ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
Issue Supplement S1, May
ISSUE INFORMATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa
John B. Casterline
FERTILITY TRANSITION IN AFRICA
Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future
Fertility Change in sub-Saharan Africa
Patrick Gerland, Ann Biddlecom and Vladimíra Kantorová
Africa's Unique Fertility Transition
John Bongaarts
African Transitions and Fertility Inequality: A Demographic Kuznets Hypothesis
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Sarah Giroux and Michel Tenikue
Fertility Desires and the Course of Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa
John B. Casterline and Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Trends in Age at Marriage and the Onset of Fertility Transition in sub-Saharan
Africa
Véronique Hertrich
FAMILY PLANNING
The Impact of Contraceptive Use and Abortion on Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa:
Estimates for 2003–2014
Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Jacqueline E. Darroch
Contraceptive Practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Amy O. Tsui, Win Brown and Qingfeng Li
Contemporary Use of Traditional Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa
Clémentine Rossier and Jamaica Corker
Changes in Use of Family Planning among the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi
Slums
Donatien Beguy, Alex C. Ezeh, Blessing U. Mberu and Jacques
B.O. Emina
CONSEQUENCES OF FERTILITY DECLINE
The Effect of Fertility Decline on Economic Growth in Africa: A Macrosimulation
Model
Mahesh Karra, David Canning and Joshua Wilde
The Challenges Posed by Demographic Change in sub-Saharan Africa: A Concise
Overview
John Cleland and Kazuyo Machiyama
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
Fertility Transitions in Ghana and Kenya: Trends, Determinants, and Implications
for Policy and Programs
Ian Askew, Ndugga Maggwa and Francis Obare
The Politics of Family Planning Policies and Programs in sub-Saharan Africa
John F. May
The Persistence of High Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comment
Cheikh Mbacké
AUTHORS
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