GENERAL DEMOGRAPHY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2006 Reading List
GENERAL DEMOGRAPHY
1.
Hauser, Philip M. and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1959. "The Nature of Demography." Pp. 29-44 in P. M. Hauser and
O. D. Duncan, eds., The Study of Population . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
2.
Newell, Colin. 1988. Chapters 2, 4, and 5 in Methods and Models of Demography .
3.
Preston, Samuel H. 1993 "The Contours of Demography: Estimates and Projections." Demography 30:593-606.
4.
Crimmins, Eileen M. 1993. “Demography: The Past 30 Years, the Present, and the Future.” Demography 30:
579-591
5.
Caldwell, J. C. 1996. “Demography and Social Science.”
Population Studies 50: 309-316.
6.
Greenhalgh, S. 1996. "The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political
History of Twentieth Century Demography." Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (1): 26-66.
7.
D. Kirk, 1996."The Demographic Transition." Population Studies 50: 361-388.
8.
Palmore, James A. and Robert W. Gardner. 1996. Pp. 1-34 in Measuring Fertility, Mortality, and Natural
Increase.
Honolulu: East-West Center.
FERTILITY
Fertility Transitions: Theory and Evidence
1.
Bongaarts, John. 1982. "The Fertility-inhibiting Effects of the Intermediate Fertility Variables." Studies in Family
Planning 13: 179-189.
2.
Knodel, John, N. Havanon, and A. Pramualratana. 1984. "Fertility transition in Thailand: A qualitative analysis".
Population and Development Review 10(2): 297-328.
3.
Cleland, J. and C. Wilson. 1987. “Demand theories of the fertility transition: An iconoclastic view.” Population
Studies 41:5-30.
4.
Gendell, M. 1989. “Stalls in the Fertility Decline of Costa Rica and South Korea.” International Family Planning
Perspectives 15(1): 15-21.
5.
Lee, Alvarez, Palen. 1991. “Fertility Decline and Pronatalist Policy in Singapore.”
International Family Planning
Perspectives 17(2): 65-73.
6.
Caldwell, Orubuloye, Caldwell. 1992. “Fertility Decline in Africa: A New Type of Transition?” Population and
Development Review 18(2): 211-242.
7.
Pollak, Robert A; S. C. Watkins. 1993. “Cultural and Economic Approaches to fertility: proper marriage or mesalliance?” Population and Development Review 19(3): 467-496
8.
Gertler, P. J., and J. W. Molyneaux. 1994. “How Economic Development and Family Planning Programs
Combined to Reduce Indonesian Fertility.” Demography 31(1): 33-63.
9.
Bongaarts, John; Watkins, Susan C. 1996. “Social interactions and contemporary fertility transitions.” Population and Development Review 22(4): 639-82
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Entwisle, B., R. Rindfuss, D. K. Guilkey, A. Chamratrithirong, S. R. Curran, and Y. Sawangdee. 1996.
“Community and Contraceptive Choice in Rural Thailand: a Case Study of Nang Rong,” Demography 33(1): 1-
11.
11.
Rutenberg, N. and S. C. Watkins. 1997. “The Buzz Outside the Clinics: Conversations and Contraception in
Nyanza Province, Kenya.” Studies in Family Planning 28(4): 290-307.
12.
Mason, Karen Oppenheim. 1997. “Explaining fertility transitions.” Demography 34(4): 443-454.
13.
Bledsoe, Caroline, Fatoumatta Banja, and Allan G. Hill. 1998. “Reproductive mishaps and western contraception:
An African challenge to fertility theory.” Population and Development Review 24: 15-57.
14.
Potter, J. E. 1999. “The Persistence of Outmoded Contraceptive Regimes: The Cases of Mexico and Brazil.”
Population and Development Review 25(4): 703-739.
15.
Axinn, William G. and Jennifer S. Barber 2001. “Mass education and fertility transition.” American Sociological
Review 66(4): 481-505.
16.
Attane, I. 2002. “China’s Family Planning Policy: An Overview of its Past and Future.” Studies in Family
Planning 33(1): 103-113.
17.
Potter, J. E., C. Schmertmann, and S. M. Cavenaghi. 2002. “Fertility and Development: Evidence from Brazil.”
Demography 39(4): 739-761.
18.
Brown, John C. and Timothy W. Guinnane. 2002. “Fertility transition in a rural, Catholic population: Bavaria,
1880-1910.” Population Studies 56: 35-50.
19.
Bongaarts, John. 2003. “Completing the fertility transition in the developing world: The role of educational differences and fertility preferences.” Population Studies 57(3): 321-336.
Below Replacement Fertility and Quantum vs. Tempo
20.
Delgado Perez, Marita, and Massimo Livi-Bacci. 1992 “Fertility in Italy and Spain: The Lowest in the World.”
Family Planning Perspectives 24(4): 162-171.
21.
Bongaarts, John; Feeney, Griffith. 1998. “On the Quantum and Tempo of Fertility”. Population and Development
Review 24(2): 271-91.
22.
Lesthaeghe, Ron and Paul Willems. 1999. “Is Low Fertility a Temporary Phenomenon in the European Union?”
Population and Development Review 25(2): 211-228.
23.
Rindfuss, R. R., K. Guzzo, and S. P. Morgan. 2000. “The Changing Institutional Context of Low Fertility.”
Population Research and Policy Review 22(5/6): 411-438.
24.
Bongaarts, J. 2002. “The End of the Fertility Transition in the Developed World.” Population and Development
Review 28(3): 419-443.
25.
Kohler, H-P., Billari, F. and Ortega, J.A. 2002. “The Emergence of Lowest-low Fertility in Europe during the
1990s.”
Population and Development Review 28(4): 641-680.
26.
Demeny, Paul. 2003. “Population Policy Dilemmas in Europe at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.”
Population and Development Review 29(1): 1-28.
27.
Morgan, S. P. 2003. “Is Low Fertility a Twenty-First Century Demographic Crisis?” Demography 40(4): 589-
603.
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Families and Fertility
28.
Bumpass, Larry L. 1990. “What’s Happening to the Family?” Demography 27: 483-498.
29.
Thornton A. 2001. “The developmental paradigm, reading history sideways, and family change.” Demography
38 (4): 449-465.
30.
Smith, Herbert, Morgan, S. Philip and Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox. 1996. “A Decomposition of Trends in the
Nonmarital Fertility Ratios of Blacks and Whites in the United States, 1960-92.” Demography 33: 141-51.
31.
Morgan, S.P. 1996. “Characteristic Features of Modern American Fertility.” Population and Development
Review 22: 19-63.
32.
Bumpass, Larry L. and Hsien-Hen Lu. 2000. "Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children's Family
Contexts in the United States." Population Studies 54:29-41.
33.
Raley, R. Kelly. 2001. “Increasing Fertility in Cohabiting Unions: Evidence for the Second Demographic
Transition in the United States?” Demography 38(1): 59-66.
MORTALITY
Epidemiological Transition
1.
McKeown, Thomas and R.G. Record.1962, “Reasons for the Decline of Mortality in England and Wales during the Nineteenth Century.” Population Studies 16(2): 94-122.
2.
Omran, A. 1971. "The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change." Milbank
Memorial Fund Quarterly 49(4): 509-538.
3.
Palloni, Alberto.1981. "Mortality in Latin America: Emerging Patterns." Population and Development Review
7(4): 623-650.
4.
Mosley, W. H. and L. C. Chen. 1984. “An Analytic Framework for the Study of Child Survival in Developing
Countries.” Population and Development Review 10(supplement): 25-48.
5.
Preston, Samuel H. 1985. "Mortality and development revisited." Population Bulletin of the United Nations (18):
34-40.
6.
Caldwell, J. 1986."Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries." PDR 12: 171-220.
7.
Olshansky, J., and Brian Ault. 1986. “The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: the Age of
Degenerative Diseases.” The Milbank Quarterly 64(3): 355-391.
8.
Rogers, R., and R. Hackenburg. 1987. "Extending Epidemiologic Transition Theory: A New Stage." Social
Biology 34(3-4): 234-243.
9.
Frenk, J., Bobadilla, J.L., Sepulveda, J., and M. Lopez. 1989. “Health Transition in Middle Income Countries:
New Challenges for Health Care.” Health and Policy Planning 4(1): 29-39.
10.
R. Schofield and D. Reher, 1991. “The Decline of Mortality in Europe.” Pp. 1-17 in R. Schofield, D. Reher and
A.Bideau (eds.) The Decline of Mortality in Europe . Oxford: Clarendon Press.
11.
Bongaarts, John. 1996. “Global Trends in AIDS Mortality.” Population and Development Review 22: 21-45.
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12.
White, K., and S. Preston. 1996. "How Many Americans are Alive Because of Twentieth-Century Improvement in Mortality?" Population and Development Review 22: 415-429.
13.
Olshansky et al. 1997: "Infectious Diseases -- New and Ancient Threats to World Health." Population Bulletin
52(2).
14.
Salomon, Joshua A., and Christopher J.L. Murray. 2002. “The Epidemiologic Transition Revisited: Causes of
Death by Age and Sex.” PDR 28(2): 205-228.
15.
Szreter S 2002. “Rethinking McKeown: The relationship between public health and social change.” American
Journal of Public Health . 92 (5): 722-725.
16.
Link BG, Phelan JC. 2002. “McKeown and the idea that social conditions are fundamental causes of disease.”
American Journal of Public Health 92 (5): 730-732.
17.
Colgrove, J. 2002. “The McKeown Thesis: A Historical Controversy and Its Enduring Influence.” American
Journal of Public Health 92(5): 725-729.
18.
Cutler, David and Grant Miller. 2005. “The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: the
Twentieth-Century United States.” Demography 42(1): 1-22.
Infant Mortality and Birth Outcomes
19.
Pampel, Fred C., Jr. and Vijayan Pillai. 1986. “Patterns and Determinants of Infant Mortality in Developed
Nations, 1950-1975.” Demography 23: 525-42.
20.
Geronimus, A. 1987. “On teenage childbearing and neonatal mortality in the United States.” Population and
Development Review 13(2): 245-297.
21.
Cramer, J.C. 1987. “Social Factors and Infant Mortality: Identifying High-Risk Groups and Proximate Causes.”
Demography 24: 299-322.
22.
Eberstein, Isaac W., Charles B. Nam, and Robert A. Hummer. 1990. “Infant Mortality by Cause of Death: Main and Interaction Effects.” Demography 27: 413-430.
23.
Forbes, Douglas and W. Parker Frisbie. 1991. “Spanish Surname and Anglo infant mortality: Differentials over a half-century.” Demography 28(4): 639-60.
24.
Frisbie, WP, M Biegler, P de Turk, D Forbes, and SG Pullum. 1997. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in
Determinants of Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Other Compromised Birth Outcomes.” American Journal of Public Health 87: 1977-83.
25.
Gortmaker, Stephen L. and Paul H. Wise. 1997. “The First Injustice: Socioeconomic Disparities, Health Services
Technology, and Infant Mortality.” Annual Review of Sociology 23: 147-170.
26.
Hummer, Robert A, Monique Biegler, Peter B. de Turk, Douglas Forbes, W. Parker Frisbie, Ying Hong, and
Starling Pullum. 1999. "Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Infant Mortality in the Unites States." Social Forces 77(3):
1083-1118.
27.
Landale NS, Oropesa RS, Gorman BK. 2000. “Migration and infant death: Assimilation or selective migration among Puerto Ricans?” American Sociological Review 65 (6): 888-909.
28.
Frisbie WP, Song SE, Powers DA, Street JA.2004. “The increasing racial disparity in infant mortality:
Respiratory distress syndrome and other causes.” Demography 41 (4): 773-800.
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Adult Mortality and Health
29.
Gove, Walter R. 1973. "Sex, Marital Status, and Mortality." American Journal of Sociology 79: 45-67.
30.
Pappas, G., S. Queen, W. Hadden, and G. Fisher. 1993. “The Increasing Disparity in Mortality Between
Socioeconomic Groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986.” New England Journal of Medicine 329: 103-109.
31.
Williams, Collins. 1995. “US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations.”
Annual Review of Sociology 21: 349-386.
32.
Lillard, L.A., and L. Waite. 1995. “Til Death Do Us Part: Marital Disruption and Mortality.” American Journal of Sociology 100: 1131-1156.
33.
Rogers, Richard G. 1995 "Marriage, Sex, and Mortality." Journal of Marriage and the Family 57: 515-526.
34.
Preston, S. and Elo, Irma. 1996. “Educational Differences in Mortality: United States, 1979-85.” Social Science
Medicine 42(1): 47-57.
35.
Scribner, Richard. 1996. "Editorial- Paradox as Paradigm: the Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans.”
American Journal of Public Health 86(3): 303-304.
36.
Smith, James P. and Raynard Kington. 1997. “Demographic and Economic Correlates of Health in Old Age.”
Demography 34(1):159-170.
37.
Hummer, Robert A., Richard Rogers, and Isaac W. Eberstein. 1998 "Sociodemographic Differences in U.S.
Adult Mortality: A Review of Analytic Approaches." Population Development and Review 24: 553-578.
38.
Huie, Stephanie, Hummer, Robert A. and Richard Rogers. 2002. “Individual and Contextual Risks of Death among Race and Ethnic Groups in the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 43: 359-381.
39.
Singh, G.K., and M. Siahpush. 2002. “Ethnic-Immigrant Differentials in Health Behaviors, Morbidity, and
Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States: An Analysis of Two National Data Bases.” Human Biology 74(1):
83-109.
40.
Palloni, Alberto and Elizabeth Arias. 2004. “Paradox Lost: Explaining the Hispanic Adult Mortality Advantage.”
Demography 41(3): 385-415.
41.
Elo, Turra, Kestenbaum, Ferguson. 2004. “Mortality among Elderly Hispanics in the United States: Past
Evidence and New Results.”
Demography 41(1): 109-128.
42.
Williams, Kristi and Debra Umberson. 2004. “Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Health: A Gendered Life
Course Perspective.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45: 81-98.
43.
Case, A. and C. Paxson. 2005. “Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality.” Demography 42(2): 198-214.
MIGRATION
Theories of Migration
1.
Lee, Everett. 1966. “A Theory of Migration.” Demography 3: 47-57.
2.
Stark, O. and D.E. Bloom. 1985. “The New Economics of Labor Migration.” American Economic Review 75:
173-178.
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3.
Sassen, S. 1988. The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flows. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
4.
Stark, O. and J.E. Taylor. 1989. “Relative Deprivation and International Migration.” Demography 26(1): 1-14.
5.
Pedraza, S. 1991. “Women & Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender.” Annual Review of Sociology 17:
303-325.
6.
Massey, Douglas, et al. 1993. “Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal.” Population and
Development Review 19: 431-466.
7.
Portes & Zhou. 1993. “The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants.” Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science 530: 74-96.
8.
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. 1997. “Rethinking Assimilation for a New Era of Immigrants.”
International
Migration Review 31 (4): 826-74.
9.
Portes, A. 1997. “Immigration theory for a new century: Some problems and opportunities.” International
Migration Review 31(4): 799-825.
10.
Zhou, Min. 1997. “Segmented assimilation: Issues, controversies, and recent research on the new second generation.” International Migration Review 31(4): 975-1008.
11.
Massey, D. 1999. “International Migration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the State.”
Population and Development Review 25(2): 303-322.
International Migration and its Consequences
12.
Donato, Katharine, Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey. 1992. “Stemming the Tide? Assessing the Deterrent
Effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act.” Demography 29: 139-157.
13.
Massey, Douglas A. Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor.
1994. "An Evaluation of International Migration Theory: The North American Case." Population and
Development Review 20: 699-751.
14.
Frey, W. 1995. “Immigration and Internal Migration ‘Flight’ from US Metropolitan Areas: Toward a New
Demographic Balkanization.” Urban Studies 32(4): 733-757.
15.
Massey DS, Espinosa KE. 1997. “What's driving Mexico-US migration? A theoretical, empirical, and policy analysis.”
American Journal of Sociology 102 (4): 939-999.
16.
White MJ, Liang Z. 1998. “The effect of immigration on the internal migration of the native-born population,
1981-1990.” Population Research and Policy Review 17 (2): 141-166.
17.
Ainsworth-Darnell JW, Downey DB. 1998. “Assessing the oppositional culture explanation for racial/ethnic differences in school performance.” American Sociological Review 63(4): 536-553.
18.
Zlotnik. 1998. “International Migration 1965-96: An Overview.”
Population and Development Review 24(3):
429-468.
19.
Kanaiaupuni SM. 2000. “Reframing the migration question: An analysis of men, women, and gender in
Mexico.” Social Forces 78 (4): 1311-1347.
20.
Kritz MM, Gurak DT. 2001. “The impact of immigration on the internal migration of natives and immigrants.”
Demography 38 (1): 133-145.
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21.
Palloni A, Massey DS, Ceballos M, et al. 2001. “Social capital and international migration: A test using information on family networks.” American Journal of Sociology 106 (5): 1262-1298.
22.
Farkas, G., C. Lleras, and S. Maczuga. 2002. “Does Oppositional Culture Exist in Minority and Poverty Peer
Groups?” American Sociological Review 67(1): 148-155.
23.
Downey, Ainsworth-Darnell. 2002. “The Search for Oppositional Culture among Black Students.” American
Sociological Review 67(1): 156-164.
24.
Borjas, G.J. 2003. “The Labor Demand Curve Is Sloping Downwards: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(4): 1335-1374.
25.
Card, D. 2005. “Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?”
The Economic Journal 115: F300-F323.
Urbanization, Segregation and Inequality
26.
Davis, Kingsley. 1955. “The Origin and Growth of Urbanization in the World.”
American Journal of Sociology 60: 429-437.
27.
Wilson, William J. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged . Chapter 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
28.
Massey, D.S., N. Denton. 1989. “Hypersegregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Black and Hispanic Segregation
Along Five Dimensions.” Demography 26(3): 373-391.
29.
Massey DS, Eggers M. 1990. “The Ecology of Inequality - Minorities and the Concentration of Poverty, 1970-
1980.” American Journal of Sociology 95 (5): 1153-1188.
30.
St. John, Craig. 1995. “Interclass Segregation, Poverty, and Poverty Concentration – Comment.” American
Journal of Sociology 100(5): 1325-1333.
31.
Massey DS, Eggers M. 1995. “Beyond The Technical Details – Reply.” American Journal of Sociology 100 (5):
1333-1335.
32.
Jargowsky, Paul A. 1996. “Take the Money and Run: Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.”
American Sociological Review 61(6): 984-998.
33.
Massey, DS. 1996. “The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the 21st Century.”
Demography 33(4): 395-412.
34.
Harris DR. 1999. "Property values drop when blacks move in, because..": Racial and socioeconomic determinants of neighborhood desirability.” American Sociological Review 64(3): 461-479.
35.
Quillian L. 1999. “Migration patterns and the growth of high-poverty neighborhoods, 1970-1990.” American
Journal of Sociology 105(1): 1-37.
36.
Logan, Alba, Zhang. 2002. “Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles.”
American Sociological Review 67(2): 299-322.
37.
Wilkes R, Iceland J. 2004. “Hypersegregation in the twenty-first century.” Demography 41(1): 23-36
38.
Logan JR, Stults BJ, Farley R. 2004. “Segregation of minorities in the metropolis: Two decades of change.” Demography 41 (1): 1-22.
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