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2013, volume 39, issue 1

Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality around the Developing World pp. 1-29

Damien De Walque and Deon Filmer

New Cohort Fertility Forecasts for the Developed World: Rises, Falls, and Reversals pp. 31-56

Mikko Myrskylä, Joshua R. Goldstein and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng

Life Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries pp. 57-74

Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer and Ralph A. Catalano

Son Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from South and East Asian Immigrants to Canada pp. 75-95

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund and Kevin Milligan

The Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth pp. 97-130

Quamrul H. Ashraf, David N. Weil and Joshua Wilde

Migration and Intergenerational Replacement in Europe pp. 131-157

Chris Wilson, Tomáš Sobotka, Lee Williamson and Paul Boyle

Steven H. Woolf and Laudan Aron (eds.): U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health pp. 165-167

John Bongaarts

2013, volume 38

Preface pp. ix-x

Geoffrey McNicoll, John Bongaarts and Ethel P. Churchill

Reflections on Post-Transition Demography pp. 3-19

Geoffrey McNicoll

Intergenerational Transfers, the Biological Life Cycle, and Human Society pp. 23-35

Ronald Lee

The Intergenerational Welfare State pp. 36-51

Nancy Folbre and Douglas Wolf

Why Demographic Suicide? The Puzzles of European Fertility pp. 55-71

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

Low Fertility in Historical Perspective pp. 72-82

Massimo Livi Bacci

On Demographic and Democratic Transitions pp. 83-102

Tim Dyson

A Demographic Perspective on Japan's “Lost Decades” pp. 103-112

Reiko Aoki

Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China's One-Child Policy? pp. 115-129

Wang Feng, Yong Cai and Baochang Gu

Patriarchal Demographics? China's Sex Ratio Reconsidered pp. 130-149

Susan Greenhalgh

Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different? pp. 153-168

John Bongaarts and John Casterline

The Recent Fertility Transition in Rwanda pp. 169-178

Charles F. Westoff

Fertility and Population Policy in Algeria: Discrepancies between Planning and Outcomes pp. 179-196

Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi and Jacques Vallin

Working Misunderstandings: Donors, Brokers, and Villagers in Africa's AIDS Industry pp. 197-218

Susan Cotts Watkins and Ann Swidler

Peak Farmland and the Prospect for Land Sparing pp. 221-242

Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick and Paul E. Waggoner

National Wealth pp. 243-264

Partha Dasgupta

The Last Eighty Years: Continuities and Change pp. 265-279

Vaclav Smil

Demographic Metabolism: A Predictive Theory of Socioeconomic Change pp. 283-301

Wolfgang Lutz

Cross-Sections Are History pp. 302-308

Richard A. Easterlin

Population Change among the Elderly: International Patterns pp. 309-321

Andrew Stokes and Samuel H. Preston

The French School of Demography: Contextualizing Demographic Analysis pp. 322-333

Véronique Petit and Yves Charbit

The Twilight of the Census pp. 334-351

David Coleman

2012, volume 38, issue 4

Goode's World Revolution and Family Patterns: A Reconsideration at Fifty Years pp. 577-607

Andrew J. Cherlin

Trends in the Economic Independence of Young Adults in the United States: 1973–2007 pp. 609-630

Maria Sironi and Frank F. Furstenberg

Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968–2010 pp. 631-648

Diane J. Macunovich

On the Role of Human Development in the Arab Spring pp. 649-683

Randall Kuhn

Geopolitical Aspects of Population in the Twenty-First Century pp. 685-705

Paul Demeny

The Family Context of Cohabitation and Single Motherhood in Latin America pp. 707-727

Albert Esteve, Joan García-Román and Ron J. Lesthaeghe

Sylvester J. Schieber, The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System pp. 735-743

Landis MacKellar

2012, volume 38, issue 3

Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico–US Stream 1970–2000 pp. 393-433

Filiz Garip

How Similar Are Cohabitation and Marriage? Legal Approaches to Cohabitation across Western Europe pp. 435-467

Brienna Perelli-Harris and Nora Sánchez Gassen

Deadly Cities? Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 469-486

Isabel Gunther and Kenneth Harttgen

High Sex Ratios at Birth in the Caucasus: Modern Technology to Satisfy Old Desires pp. 487-501

Géraldine Duthé, France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Irina Badurashvili and Karine Kuyumjyan

Economic Migration and Urban Citizenship in China: The Role of Points Systems pp. 503-533

Li Zhang

The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation: The End of Hypergamy? pp. 535-546

Albert Esteve, Joan García-Román and Iñaki Permanyer

Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960–2010 pp. 551-554

Frank F. Furstenberg

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy pp. 554-556

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 pp. 556-559

Edward G.J. Stevenson

2012, volume 38, issue 2

Transnationalism and Development: Mexican and Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States pp. 191-220

Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou

Sources of Population Aging in More and Less Developed Countries pp. 221-236

Samuel H. Preston and Andrew Stokes

Family Life History and Late Mid-Life Mortality in Norway pp. 237-257

ØYstein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, Torkild H. Lyngstad and Kenneth Aa. Wiik

Migration as Social Movement: Voluntary Group Migration and the Crimean Tatar Repatriation pp. 259-284

Marina Zaloznaya and Theodore P. Gerber

Urbanization as a Global Historical Process: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa pp. 285-310

Sean Fox

Population Policy in a Prosperous City-State: Dilemmas for Singapore pp. 311-336

Gavin W. Jones

Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective pp. 337-351

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

Immigration to the UK from High-Fertility Countries: Intergenerational Adaptation and Fertility Convergence pp. 353-368

Sylvie Dubuc

Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd, A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World pp. 373-375

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 pp. 375-377

Cassio M. Turra

2012, volume 38, issue 1

Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post‐1965 Surge from Latin America pp. 1-29

Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren

Son Preference, Sex Selection, and Kinship in Vietnam pp. 31-54

Christophe Z. Guilmoto

The Latin American Cohabitation Boom, 1970–2007 pp. 55-81

Albert Esteve, Ron J. Lesthaeghe and Antonio López‐Gay

A Demographic Explanation for the Recent Rise in European Fertility pp. 83-120

John Bongaarts and Tomáš Sobotka

On the Crafting of Population Knowledge pp. 121-131

Susan Greenhalgh

Demographic Changes in North Korea: 1993–2008 pp. 133-158

Thomas Spoorenberg and Daniel Schwekendiek

Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason, Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective pp. 165-168

Geoffrey McNicoll

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined pp. 168-169

Carl Haub

Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men pp. 170-173

Alaka Malwade Basu

Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone pp. 173-175

Tomas Frejka