Population and public policy
Subtitle: essays in honor of Paul Demeny
By: Geoffrey McNicoll, John Bongaarts, Ethel P. Churchill, editors
Edition: First Edition.
Series: Population and development review -- 38
Publisher: Population Council
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780878341283
Subjects: Environmental aspects; Technological innovations; Population policy; Demographic transition
Notes: "Population and development review, a supplement to volume 38, 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Intergenerational relations; title: Intergenerational transfers, the biological life cycle, and human society / Donald Lee; title: The intergenerational welfare state / Nancy Folbre, Douglas Wolf; title: Low fertlity and population aging; title: Why demographic suicide? : the puzzles of European fertility / Lant Pritchett, Martina Viarengo; title: Low fertility in historical perspective / Massimo Livi Bacci; title: A demographic perspective on Japan's "lost decades" / Reiko Aoki; title: Fertility transition outcomes; title: On demographic and democratic transitions / Tim Dyson; title: Population change among the elderly : international patterns / Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston; title: Ruminations on post-transition demography / Geoffrey McNicoll; title: Policy and program : China; title: Population, policy, and politics : how will history judge China's one-child policy? / Wang Feng, Yong Cai, Baochang Gu; title: Patriarchal demographics : China's sex ratio reconsidered / Susan Greenhalgh; title: Policy and program : Africa; title: Fertility transition : is sub-Saharan Africa different? / John Bongaarts; title: The recent fertility decline in Rwanda / Charles F. Westoff; title: Fertility and population policy in Algeria : discrepancies between planning and outcomes / Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi, Jacques Vallin; title: Working misunderstandings : donors, brokers, and villagers in Africa's AIDS industry / Susan Cotts Watkins, Ann Swidler; title: Environment, technology, and wealth; title: Peak farmland and the prospect for land sparing / Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick, Paul E. Waggoner; title: National wealth / Partha Dasgupta; title: The last eighty years : continuities and change / Vaclav Smil; title: Population theory and measurement; title: Demographic metabolism : a predictive theory of socioeconomic change / Wolfgang Lutz; title: Cross-sections are history / Richard A. Easterlin; title: The French school of demography : contextualizing demographic analysis / Veronique Petit, Yves Charbit; title: The twilight of the census / David Coleman; title: Authors.