Population and Development Review

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Volume 44, month 12, 2018

Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low‐Income Countries pp. 667-693

Michael Clemens and Hannah M. Postel

Perception has its Own Reality: Subjective versus Objective Measures of Economic Distress pp. 695-722

Dana A. Glei, Noreen Goldman and Maxine Weinstein

The Emergence of Bimodal Fertility Profiles in Latin America pp. 723-743

Everton E. C. Lima, Kryštof Zeman, Tomáš Sobotka, Mathias Nathan and Ruben Castro

Marx on Population: A Bicentenary Celebration pp. 745-769

Simon Szreter

“How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition pp. 771-791

John Nott

From Fertility Preferences to Reproductive Outcomes in the Developing World pp. 793-809

John Bongaarts and John B. Casterline

Fiscal Implications of Population Aging and Social Sector Expenditure in China pp. 811-831

Yong Cai, Wang Feng and Ke Shen

Giammaria Ortes on Population: A Commentary pp. 839-842

Massimo Livi‐Bacci

Laura Spinney Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world New York: Public Affairs, 2017. 352 p. $28.00 pp. 843-845

Tommy Bengtsson

Crystal Biruk Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 296 p. $26.95 (pbk.) pp. 845-848

Monica Grant

Ayo Wahlberg Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018. 248 p. $34.95 (pbk.) pp. 848-852

Susan Greenhalgh

Volume 44, month 09, 2018

Living Alone in Later Life: A Global Perspective pp. 427-454

David Reher and Miguel Requena

Climate Migration at the Height and End of the Great Mexican Emigration Era pp. 455-488

Fernando Riosmena, Raphael Nawrotzki and Lori Hunter

Fertility Differentials by Education in Brazil: From the Conclusion of Fertility to the Onset of Postponement Transition pp. 489-517

Eduardo L. G. Rios‐Neto, Adriana Miranda‐Ribeiro and Paula Miranda‐Ribeiro

Economic Conditions in Early Life and Circulatory Disease Mortality pp. 519-553

Ryan K. Masters

Formal Education and Migration Aspirations in Ethiopia pp. 555-587

Kerilyn Schewel and Sonja Fransen

The Global Evolution of Travel Visa Regimes pp. 589-622

Mathias Czaika, Hein de Haas and María Villares‐Varela

The New Eugenics—Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies: A Review Essay pp. 627-638

Bernard M. Dickens

Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2017. 288 p. $35.00 pp. 639-642

Ren Farley

Dan Bouk How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 328 p. $30.00 (pbk.) pp. 642-643

John Bongaarts

Nora Doyle Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 286 p. $32.95 (pbk.) pp. 643-644

John Casterline

Ana Raquel Minian Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. 336 p. $29.95 (hardcover) pp. 644-644

Dennis Hodgson

David Reich Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past New York: Pantheon Books, 2018. 368 p. $28.95 (hardcover) pp. 645-646

Geoffrey McNicol

Pablo Yanguas Why We Lie About Aid London: Zed Books, 2018. 275 p pp. 646-647

Landis MacKellar

Volume 44, month 06, 2018

Women as Agents in Fertility Decision†making: Australia, 1870–1910 pp. 203-230

Peter McDonald and Helen Moyle

Selective Versus Generalized Gender Bias in Childhood Health and Nutrition: Evidence from India pp. 231-255

Sowmya Rajan and S. Philip Morgan

How Temporary Were Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers? pp. 257-280

Elena Prokopenko and Feng Hou

Postindustrial Fertility Ideals, Intentions, and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis pp. 281-309

Mary C. Brinton, Xiana Bueno, Livia Oláh and Merete Hellum

Women's Education in the Muslim World pp. 311-342

David McClendon, Conrad Hackett, Michaela PotanÄ oková, Marcin Stonawski and Vegard Skirbekk

Education and Health: Redrawing the Preston Curve pp. 343-361

Wolfgang Lutz and Endale Kebede

Determinants of Urban Growth during Demographic and Mobility Transitions: Evidence from India, Mexico, and the US pp. 363-389

Leiwen Jiang and Brian C. O'Neill

James C. Scott Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States Yale University Press, 2017. xvii + 312 p. $26.00 pp. 395-397

Larry Willmore

Göran Therborn Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global London: Verso, 2017. 408 p. $35.00 pp. 397-399

Geoffrey McNicoll

Volume 44, month 03, 2018

Rural/Urban Population Age and Sex Composition in sub†Saharan Africa 1980–2015 pp. 7-35

Ashira Menashe†Oren and Guy Stecklov

How Do Demographic Trends Change? The Onset of Birth Masculinization in Albania, Georgia, and Vietnam 1990–2005 pp. 37-61

Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Nora Dudwick, Arjan Gjonça and Laura Rahm

Cooperative Decision†Making and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru pp. 63-85

Joseph Svec and Tanja Andic

The Flexibility of Fertility Preferences in a Context of Uncertainty pp. 87-116

Jenny Trinitapoli and Sara Yeatman

Measuring Gender Equality in Education: Lessons from Trends in 43 Countries pp. 117-142

Stephanie R. Psaki, Katharine J. McCarthy and Barbara S. Mensch

Decomposing and Predicting China's GDP Growth: Past, Present, and Future pp. 143-157

Mengni Chen, Chi Leung Kwok, Haiyue Shan and Paul S. F. Yip

French Immigration—Sociology Meets Politics: A Review Essay pp. 167-175

Landis MacKellar

Anthony J. McMichael with Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 370 p. $39.95 pp. 176-179

José Siri

Maharaj K. Pandit Life in the Himalaya: An Ecosystem at Risk London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. 384 p. $45.00 pp. 179-181

Dipak Gyawali

Guido Alfani and Cormac Ó Gráda (eds.) Famine in European History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi + 325 p. $89.99; $29.99 (pbk.) pp. 182-183

Geoffrey McNicoll

Thomas K. Burch Model†Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory Springer Open Access, 2018. 200 p pp. 183-184

John Casterline

Massimo Livi Bacci Our Shrinking Planet Translated by David Broder Polity Press, 2017. 160p. $64.93; $19.93 (pbk.) pp. 184-184

John Bongaarts

Catherine E. Rymph Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 252 p. $90.00; $29.93 (pbk.) pp. 185-186

Landis MacKellar

Paul Schor Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 376 p. $74.00 pp. 186-187

Dennis Hodgson

Volume 43, month 12, 2017

Frozen in Place: Net Migration in sub†National Areas of the United States in the Era of the Great Recession pp. 599-623

Kenneth M. Johnson, Katherine J. Curtis and David Egan†Robertson

Migration, Schooling Choice, and Student Outcomes in China pp. 625-643

Xiaobing Wang, Yu Bai, Linxiu Zhang and Scott Rozelle

Large and Growing Social Inequality in Mortality in Norway: The Combined Importance of Marital Status and Own and Spouse's Education pp. 645-665

Øystein Kravdal

Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing pp. 667-693

Karel Neels, Michael Murphy, Máire Ní Bhrolcháin and Éva Beaujouan

Full Generational Accounts: What Do We Give to the Next Generation? pp. 695-720

Ronald Lee, David McCarthy, James Sefton and Jože Sambt

Leveraging Facebook's Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants pp. 721-734

Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber and Krishna Gummadi

Rogers Brubaker Grounds for Difference Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. xi + 219 p. $41.00 pp. 743-745

Charles Hirschman

Scott W. Allard Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2017. 288 p. $32.50 (pbk.) pp. 745-748

Andrew J. Cherlin

Markus Haacker The Economics of the Global Response to HIV/AIDS Oxford University Press, 2016. 304 p. $55.00 pp. 749-752

John Bongaarts

Volume 43, month 09, 2017

Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights pp. 405-441

Aisha Dasgupta and Partha Dasgupta

Trading Youth for Citizenship? The Spousal Age Gap in Cross-Border Marriages pp. 443-466

Kelly Stamper Balistreri, Kara Joyner and Grace Kao

Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster pp. 467-490

Jessica Y. Ho, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Cecep Sumantri and Duncan Thomas

Demographic and Educational Success of Lineages in Northern Sweden pp. 491-512

Martin Kolk and Martin Hällsten

Adam Smith, the Division of Labor, and the Renewal of Population Heterogeneity pp. 513-539

Philip Kreager

The Best Predictors of Survival: Do They Vary by Age, Sex, and Race? pp. 541-560

Noreen Goldman, Dana A. Glei and Maxine Weinstein

Patrick Kingsley The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis New York: Liveright Publishing, 2017. 351 p. $26.95 pp. 565-568

Michael Clemens

Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa Princeton University Press, 2017. 304 p. $35.00 pp. 569-573

Daniel Jordan Smith

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Marriage Vows and Racial Choices, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2017. xi + 272 p. $26.00 pp. 573-576

Daniel T. Lichter

Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro The Ends of the World Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017. 180 p. $19.95 (pbk.) pp. 576-577

Dennis Hodgson

Hans Groth and John F. May (Eds.) Africa's Population: In Search of a Demographic Dividend Springer International Publishing, 2017. 526 p. $139.00 pp. 577-578

John Bongaarts

David Henley Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of Intent London: Zed Books, 2015. xiii + 248 p. $32.95 (pbk.) pp. 578-579

Landis MacKellar

Carole R. McCann Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 328 p. $90.00; $30.00 (pbk.) pp. 579-580

Sonalde Desai

Margaret E. Peters Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. xv + 321 p. $35.00 (pbk.) pp. 580-581

Landis MacKellar

Oliver Stuenkel Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016. x + 251 p. $64.95; $22.95 (pbk.) pp. 581-582

Geoffrey McNicoll

Volume 43, month 06, 2017

Women's Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors during the Zika Epidemic in Brazil pp. 199-227

Leticia Marteleto, Abigail Weitzman, Raquel Zanatta Coutinho and Sandra Valongueiro Alves

Together but Apart: Do US Whites Live in Racially Diverse Cities and Neighborhoods? pp. 229-255

Daniel T. Lichter, Domenico Parisi and Michael C. Taquino

Demographic Determinants of Population Aging in Europe since 1850 pp. 257-283

Michael Murphy

Does Fertility or Mortality Drive Contemporary Population Aging? The Revisionist View Revisited pp. 285-301

Ronald Lee and Yi Zhou

The Rise in Divorce and Cohabitation: Is There a Link? pp. 303-329

Brienna Perelli-Harris, Ann Berrington, Nora Sánchez Gassen, Paulina Galezewska and Jennifer A. Holland

The Intergenerational Effect of Cambodia's Genocide on Children's Education and Health pp. 331-353

Asad Islam, Chandarany Ouch, Russell Smyth and Liang Wang

How Many Years Have Refugees Been in Exile? pp. 355-369

Xavier Devictor and Quy-Toan Do

Filiz Garip On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico–U.S. Migration Princeton University Press, 2017. 312 p. $39.95 pp. 375-377

Susan Parker

Randall M. Packard A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xii + 414 p. $26.00 pp. 377-382

Landis MacKellar

Michaela Kreyenfeld and Dirk Konietzka (Eds.) Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences SpringerOpen, 2017. 370 p. $59.99 pp. 382-383

John Bongaarts

Oliver Morton The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 440 p. $29.95; $16.95 (pbk.) pp. 383-384

Dennis Hodgson

Roberta Pace and Roberto Ham-Chande (Eds.) Demographic Dividends: Emerging Challenges and Policy Implications Springer International, 2016. 184 p. $99.99 pp. 384-384

John Casterline

Akira Yakita Population Aging, Fertility and Social Security Springer International, 2017. xvii + 237 p. $129.00 pp. 385-385

Geoffrey McNicoll

Volume 43, month 05, 2017

Issue Information pp. i-viii

John B. Casterline and John Bongaarts

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS pp. ix-ix

John B. Casterline and John Bongaarts

Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa pp. 3-18

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts and John B. Casterline

Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 21-38

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Patrick Gerland, Ann Biddlecom and Vladimíra Kantorová

Africa's Unique Fertility Transition pp. 39-58

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts and John Bongaarts

African Transitions and Fertility Inequality: A Demographic Kuznets Hypothesis pp. 59-83

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Sarah Giroux and Michel Tenikue

Fertility Desires and the Course of Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 84-111

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, John B. Casterline and Samuel Agyei-Mensah

Trends in Age at Marriage and the Onset of Fertility Transition in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 112-137

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts and Véronique Hertrich

The Impact of Contraceptive Use and Abortion on Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: Estimates for 2003–2014 pp. 141-165

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Jacqueline E. Darroch

Contraceptive Practice in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 166-191

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Amy O. Tsui, Win Brown and Qingfeng Li

Contemporary Use of Traditional Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 192-215

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Clémentine Rossier and Jamaica Corker

Changes in Use of Family Planning among the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi Slums pp. 216-234

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Donatien Beguy, Alex C. Ezeh, Blessing U. Mberu and Jacques B.O. Emina

The Effect of Fertility Decline on Economic Growth in Africa: A Macrosimulation Model pp. 237-263

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Mahesh Karra, David Canning and Joshua Wilde

The Challenges Posed by Demographic Change in sub-Saharan Africa: A Concise Overview pp. 264-286

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, John Cleland and Kazuyo Machiyama

Fertility Transitions in Ghana and Kenya: Trends, Determinants, and Implications for Policy and Programs pp. 289-307

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts, Ian Askew, Ndugga Maggwa and Francis Obare

The Politics of Family Planning Policies and Programs in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 308-329

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts and John F. May

The Persistence of High Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comment pp. 330-337

John B. Casterline, John Bongaarts and Cheikh Mbacké

AUTHORS pp. 339-340

John B. Casterline and John Bongaarts

Volume 43, month 03, 2017

Has Child Marriage Declined in sub-Saharan Africa? An Analysis of Trends in 31 Countries pp. 7-29

Alissa Koski, Shelley Clark and Arijit Nandi

Fertility by Birth Order among the Descendants of Immigrants in Selected European Countries pp. 31-60

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 pp. 61-82

Joseph Molitoris

A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915–1984 pp. 83-117

Emily Klancher Merchant

Patrilineality, Son Preference, and Sex Selection in South Korea and Vietnam pp. 119-147

Andrea den Boer and Valerie Hudson

A Profile of Germany's Refugee Populations pp. 149-157

Sabrina Juran and P. Niclas Broer

Henry T. Greely The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 400 p. $35.00 pp. 165-168

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. $85.00 pp. 168-173

Ronald Lee

Ulf Hannerz Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Future Scenarios Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xi + 295 p. $119.00 pp. 174-176

Geoffrey McNicoll

Umar G. Benna and Shaibu Bala Garba (Eds.) Population Growth and Rapid Urbanization in the Developing World IGI Global, 2016. 358 p. $198.85 pp. 176-177

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. $135.00; $44.95 (pbk.) pp. 177-178

Landis MacKellar

Robert J. Mayhew (Ed.) New Perspectives on Malthus Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 340 p. $99.99 pp. 178-179

Dennis Hodgson

Nancy E. Riley Population in China Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017. xiii + 237 p. $22.95 pp. 179-180

Geoffrey McNicoll

Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe (Eds.) Low and Lower Fertility: Variations across Developed Countries Springer, 2015. 196 p. $129.00; $122.55 (pbk). Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe (Eds.) Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies: Variations across Industrialized Countries Springer, 2016. 303 p. $99.99 pp. 180-181

John Bongaarts

Bedprakas SyamRoy India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population Springer International, 2017. xix + 388 p. $159.00 pp. 181-181

Geoffrey McNicoll