60:20001 Krishnan,
P.; Tuan, Chi-Hsien; Mahadevan, Kuttan. Readings in
population research: policy, methodology and perspectives. ISBN
81-7018-732-X. LC 93-90060. 1992. xiii, 586 pp. B. R. Publishing:
Delhi, India. In Eng.
This is a collection of papers on various
aspects of population research which was prepared to honor the American
scholar Ronald Freedman. "The importance of this book lies on its
interdisciplinary coverage of perspectives on policy, methodology,
ecological and cultural basis and consequences of population
growth....Another important aspect of this book is the...coverage of
methodological issues on diverse themes." The geographical scope is
worldwide, with some emphasis on China and India. A profile of
Professor Freedman and a bibliography of his work are
included.
Selected items will be cited in this or subsequent issues
of Population Index.
Correspondence: B. R. Publishing, 29/9
Nangia Park, Shakti Nagar, Delhi 110 007, India. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:20002 Henson,
Paul. Population growth, environmental awareness, and
policy direction. Population and Environment, Vol. 15, No. 4, Mar
1994. 265-78 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"Many policy analysts,
commentators, and researchers claim that the issue of human population
growth no longer receives the attention and concern it once enjoyed in
both the popular and specialized media....I investigated the change in
media coverage of population issues by tallying the number of
population-related articles listed during 1967-1989 in 3 periodical
index services. Media coverage has declined sharply since the early
1970s....I [also] review a fundamental difference in perspective
between two groups of experts studying the relationship between
population growth and environmental
degradation."
Correspondence: P. Henson, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 2600 SE 98th Avenue, Suite 100, Portland, OR 97266.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:20003 Benitez
Zenteno, Raul. The Latin American view of the demographic
transition. [Vision latinoamericana de la transicion demografica.]
Comercio Exterior, Vol. 43, No. 7, Jul 1993. 618-24 pp. Mexico City,
Mexico. In Spa.
The author reviews various theories regarding
demographic transition, with a focus on their applicability to the
situation in Latin America. The discussion centers on whether the
problems faced by the rapidly growing modern world are physical, or
socioeconomic and political.
Correspondence: R. Benitez
Zenteno, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, DF,
Mexico. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
60:20004 Chen,
Jiafang. The relative-stable population perspective and a
population dynamics model. Pub. Order No. DA9331604. 1992. 234 pp.
University Microfilms International: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
The author argues that mortality and fertility rates are inherently
stable and only change significantly under strong stimuli such as war,
famine, disease, economic revolution, or radical changes in health
conditions or hygiene, after which they tend to stabilize again at
different levels. A model is developed to test the hypothesis using
data for China, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The study was
prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Mississippi State
University.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 54(6).
60:20005 Horvath,
Robert A. A history of demographic thought in Hungary from
the beginning up to the development of official statistics (Part 1:
the eighteenth century). [Histoire de la pensee demographique
hongroise de ses debuts jusqu'a l'avenement de la statistique
officielle (premiere partie: le XVIIIe siecle).] Journal de la Societe
de Statistique de Paris, Vol. 132, No. 4, 1991. 3-47 pp. Malakoff,
France. In Fre.
Developments in demographic, statistical, and
economic theory in Hungary during the eighteenth century are
described.
Correspondence: R. A. Horvath, Universite de
Szeged, Dugonics-ter 13, 6720 Szeged, Hungary. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:20006 Iverson,
Shepherd B. Evolutionary demographic transition theory:
comparative causes of prehistoric, historic and modern demographic
transitions. Pub. Order No. DA9331157. 1992. 149 pp. University
Microfilms International: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
The author
develops a general theory of demographic transition using Barbados,
Kuwait, Mauritius, and Zimbabwe as case studies. It is concluded that
changes in reproductive behavior are an adaptive response to changing
material conditions, and that the most important factors associated
with modern fertility declines are economic or employment conditions
that conflict with reproduction and women's access to material
resources independent of men and children. This study was prepared as
a doctoral dissertation at the University of
Florida.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 54(6).
60:20007 Palivos,
Theodore; Yip, Chong K. Optimal population size and
endogenous growth. Economics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1993. 107-10
pp. Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Eng.
"Many applications in economics
require the selection of an objective function which enables the
comparison of allocations involving different population sizes. The
two most commonly used criteria are the Benthamite and the Millian
welfare functions, also known as classical and average utilitarianism,
respectively. The former maximizes total utility of the society and
thus represents individuals, while the latter maximizes average utility
and so represents generations. Edgeworth (1925) was the first to
conjecture, that the Benthamite principle leads to a larger population
size and a lower standard of living....The purpose of this paper is to
examine Edgeworth's conjecture in an endogenous growth framework in
which there are interactions between output and population growth
rates. It is shown that, under conditions that ensure an optimum, the
Benthamite criterion leads to smaller population and higher output
growth rates than the Millian."
Correspondence: T. Palivos,
Louisiana State University, Department of Economics, Baton Rouge, LA
70803. Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
60:20008 Adams,
Kathleen; Price, David. The demography of small-scale
societies: case studies from lowland South America. South
American Indian Studies, No. 4, Mar 1994. 86 pp. Bennington College:
Bennington, Vermont. In Eng.
This publication contains seven papers
by various authors on the demography of various South American Indian
groups. It is an output of several South American Indian Conferences
held annually at Bennington College, Vermont. The focus is on
demographic aspects of the primarily anthropological study of
traditional American Indian societies. The populations studied include
the Carib of Guyana, the Shipibo of Peru, and the Bakairi, Canela,
Nambiquara, Wanano, and Xavante of Brazil.
Correspondence:
Bennington College, Bennington, VT 05201. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:20009 Fricke,
Tom. Himalayan households: Tamang demography and domestic
processes. ISBN 0-231-10007-8. LC 93-37643. 1994. xiv, 243 pp.
Columbia University Press: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
The author analyzes the demographic causes of changes in social
organization being experienced by a Himalayan village in Nepal from an
anthropological perspective. This is a "study of the cultural ecology,
demography, and domestic organization of one village undergoing these
changes, the Tamang community of Timling. Faced for the first time
with an inability to procure most subsistence needs from their local
environment, these Tamang have joined the flow of people from rural
Nepal who compete for wage labor to supplement their household
economies. These changes are profoundly altering internal village
relationships which are organized by both marriage and an ethic of
reciprocity, while simultaneously drawing Timling's people into a labor
pool where they are disadvantaged because of exposure to unfamiliar
experiences." Chapters are included on fertility and mortality
trends.
Correspondence: Columbia University Press, 562 West
113th Street, New York, NY 10025. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:20010 Winkler,
Eike M.; Kirchengast, Sylvia. Body dimensions and
differential fertility in !Kung San males from Namibia. American
Journal of Human Biology, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1994. 203-13 pp. New York, New
York. In Eng.
"The relationship between paternal somatic morphology
and number and sex of the offspring was investigated with 114 !Kung San
males from Namibia. Significant correlations were observed between
measures of facial and distal robustness and the total number of sons
and daughters as well as for the sex ratio of children and the ratio of
living to dead children. Anthropometric characteristics of !Kung San
men correlated with the number of daughters more frequently than with
the number of sons, and the majority of correlation coefficients were
negative. This indicates that more slender men tend to have more
daughters, while the positive correlations between body dimensions and
the number of sons demonstrate that more robustly built and tall men
tend to have more sons. Mortality of children also differs relative to
the paternal body build."
Correspondence: E. M. Winkler,
University of Vienna, Institute for Human Biology, Althanstrasse 14,
1090 Vienna, Austria. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
60:20011
Bourgeois-Pichat, Jean. Population dynamics.
Stable, semi-stable, and quasi-stable populations. [La dynamique
des populations. Populations stables, semi-stables et quasi-stables.]
INED Travaux et Documents Cahier, No. 133, ISBN 2-7332-0133-6. 1994. x,
296 pp. Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques [INED]: Paris,
France; Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France. In Fre.
This book is the product of 11 years of courses taught by the late
Jean Bourgeois-Pichat at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris from
1976 to 1987. It includes chapters on statistical and mathematical
techniques, life tables, stable populations, semi-stable populations,
and quasi-stable populations. Some practical applications of the
semi-stable population concept to data for Mexico and France are
included.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:20012 Lucas,
David; Meyer, Paul. Beginning population studies. 2nd
ed. ISBN 0-7315-1695-8. 1994. xv, 199 pp. Australian National
University, National Centre for Development Studies: Canberra,
Australia. In Eng.
This book is designed for students needing a
nonmathematical introduction to demography, and consists of a number of
chapters by various authors on different demographic topics. Topics
include mortality, the proximate determinants of fertility, the
background to fertility, marriage and divorce, migration, internal
migration, international migration, interrelations among demographic
variables, the family life cycle, population and resources, population
policies, and demographic change and research in the 1980s and 1990s.
The main changes from the first edition, published in 1984, are the
addition of the last chapter on demographic change and research, and an
expansion of the treatment of fertility and migration. The general
approach is interdisciplinary and the geographical scope is worldwide,
with a focus on comparing the situation in developing countries with
Australia and the rest of the developed
world.
Correspondence: Australian National University,
National Centre for Development Studies, Canberra, ACT 2602, Australia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
