Volume 47, 2021
Issue 2, June
ISSUE INFORMATION
ARTICLES
Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of First Union Formation and
Sexual Initiation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ewa Batyra, Hans-Peter Kohler, Frank F. Furstenberg
Scars of Conflict in the Population Structure of Iraqi Kurdistan:
An Unfortunate Cohort and Its “Fortunate” Survivors
Sinan Zeyneloglu, Olga Aymerich, Gohdar Mzuri, Ibrahim Sirkeci
A Tale of Two Villages: Development and Household Change in India
Etienne Breton
Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development: Research
Results and Guidance for Policymakers
David E. Bloom, Alex Khoury, Vadim Kufenko, Klaus Prettner
The Contribution of Diffusion to the Fertility Transition in
Belgium (1887–1934)
Rafael Costa, Philippe Bocquier, Thierry Eggerickx
Is Migration a Learned Behavior? Understanding the Impact of
Past Migration on Future Migration
Aude Bernard, Francisco Perales
The Aftermath of the Demographic Transition in the Developed
World: Interpreting Enduring Disparities in Reproductive Behavior
David S. Reher
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
A Little Bit Pregnant? Productive Ambiguity and Fertility Research
Suzanne O. Bell, Mary E. Fissell
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
The Changing Age Distribution of the United States
Samuel H. Preston, Yana C. Vierboom
ARCHIVES
Frank H. Knight on Inheritance and Social Continuity
BOOK REVIEWS
Petit, Véronique, Qureshi, Kaveri, Charbit, Yves, and Kreager,
Philip (Eds.) The Anthropological Demography of Health Oxford University
Press, 2020, 552 p., $145.00
Yuliya Hilevych
Bédécarrats, Florent, Guérin, Isabelle, Roubaud,
François (Eds.) Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development:
A Critical Perspective Oxford University Press, 2020, 448 p., $100.00
David K. Evans
Bradley, Tasmin Global Perspectives on Violence against Women
and Girls Zed Books, 2020, 208 p., £65.00
Jeni Klugman
SHORT REVIEWS
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO The State of Food Security and
Nutrition in the World 2020. Transforming food systems for affordable
healthy diets FAO, 2020, 320 p.
John Bongaarts
Agarwal, Ankush and Kumar, Vikas Numbers in India's Periphery:
The Political Economy of Government Statistics Cambridge University
Press, 2020, 371 p., $120.00
Sonalde Desai
Jewett, Andrew Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority
in Modern America Harvard University Press, 2020, 356 p., $39.95
John Casterline
Kenny, Charles The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity
and Infectious Disease Scribner, 2021, 320 p., $28.00
Dennis Hodgson
Ord, Toby The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Hachette Books, 2020, 480 p., $30.00
Geoffrey McNicoll
Stone, Pamela and Lovejoy, Meg Opting Back In: What Really Happens
When Mothers Go Back to Work University of California Press, 2021,
264 p., $29.95
Ann K. Blanc
DOCUMENTS
The US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2040
Issue 3,
September
ISSUE INFORMATION
ARTICLES
Nature, Politics, and the Traumas of Europe
Massimo Livi-Bacci
Cohort and Period Effects as Explanations for Declining Dementia Trends and
Cognitive Aging
Sean A. P. Clouston, Graciela Muniz Terrera, Joseph Lee Rodgers,
Patrick O'Keefe, Frank D. Mann, Nathan A. Lewis, Linda Wänström,
Jeffrey Kaye, Scott M. Hofer
Urbanization Is No Longer Driven by Migration in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(1985–2015)
Ashira Menashe-Oren, Philippe Bocquier
Son Preference, Gender Discrimination, and Missing Girls in Rural Spain, 1750–1950
Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
Rising Global Levels of Intergenerational Coresidence Among Young Adults
Albert Esteve, David S. Reher
A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in
Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Luca Maria Pesando, Nicola Barban, Maria Sironi, Frank F. Furstenberg
The Introduction of Bismarck's Social Security System and its Effects on Marriage
and Fertility in Prussia
Timothy W. Guinnane, Jochen Streb
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
How Armed Conflict Influences Migration
Nathalie E. Williams, Michelle L. O'Brien, Xiaozheng Yao
Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-Term Perspective
Joerg Baten, Michiel de Haas, Elisabeth Kempter, Felix Meier
zu Selhausen
ARCHIVES
Samuel Johnson on Emigration and Resettlement
BOOK REVIEWS
Sreenivas, Mytheli Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India University
of Washington Press, 2021, 284 p., $99.00. Open-access edition:
https://doi.org/10.6069/9780295748856.
Gyan Prakash
Sherman, Jennifer Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing
American Dream University of California Press, 2021, 284 p., $85.00
Paige Kelly
Goodhart, Charles and Pradhan, Manoj The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing
Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival Palgrave-Macmillan,
2020, 280 p., €29.99.
Geoffrey McNicoll
SHORT REVIEWS
by Geoffrey McNicoll, Sonalde Desai, Ann K. Blanc, Dennis Hodgson, John
Casterline, John Bongaarts , Eyal, Nir et al. (Eds.) Measuring the Global
Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions Oxford University Press, 2020,
344 p., $85.00
BOOK REVIEWS
List, John A., Suskind, Dana, and Supplee, Lauren H. (Eds.) The Scale-up
Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact
at Scale and What We Can Do About It Routledge, 2021, 435 p., $46.95
Ruppaner, Leah Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment
Temple University Press, 2020, 186 p., $24.95
Sánchez, George J. Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood
Became the Future of American Democracy University of California Press,
2021, 392 p., $29.95
Schoen, Robert (Ed.) Analyzing Contemporary Fertility Springer, 2020, 306
p., $84.99
Swan, Shanna H. and Colino, Stacey Count Down: How Our Modern World Is
Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive
Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race Scribner, 2021,
304 p., $28.00
DOCUMENTS
Rising Working-age Mortality in the United States
China's 2020 Fertility and Adoption of a Three-Child Policy
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