Recent Publications
Books
Thornton, Arland. 2005. Reading History Sideways: the Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press.
House, James S., F. Thomas Juster, Robert Kahn, Howard Schuman, and Eleanor Singer. 2004. A Telescope on Society: Survey Research & Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Journal Articles
2008
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and Lisa Neidert. 2008. "Voting and Families: America's Second Demographic Transition." New Geography, December 11.
Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2008. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children’s Resources." Population and Development Review, 34(2): 225-252.
2007
Oris, M., M. Neven, and Alter, George C. 2007. "When protoindustry collapsed fertility and the demographic regime in rural eastern Belgium during the industrial revolution." Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 32(2): 137-159.
Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Amy M. Pienta, and Tyson H. Brown. 2007. "Women of the 1950s and the 'normative' life course: The implications of childlessness, fertility timing, and marital status for psychological well-being in late midlife." International Journal on Aging and Human Development, 64(4): 299-330.
Lam, David. 2007. "The Demography and Economics of the World's `Youth Bulge'." Development Outreach, June.
2006
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and Lisa Neidert. 2006. "The Second Demographic Transition in the United States: Exception or Textbook Example?" Population and Development Review, 32(4): 669-698.
Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, and Maureen G. Phipps. 2006. "Getting a piece of the pie? The economic boom of the 1990s and declining teen birth rates in the United States." Social Science & Medicine, 63(2006): 1531-1545.
Bailey, Martha J. 2006. "More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Labor Supply." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(1): 289-320.
2004
Barber, Jennifer S., and William Axinn. 2004. "New Ideas and Fertility Limitation: the Role of Mass Media." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 66(5): 1180-1200.
Geronimus, Arline T. 2004. "Teenage Childbearing as Cultural Prism." British Medical Bulletin, 69: 155-166.
Anderson, Barbara. 2004. "Unintended Population Consequences of Policies." Population and Environment, 25(4): 377-390.
Manning, Wendy. 2004. "Children and the Stability of Cohabiting Couples." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 66(3): 674-689.
Wang, Guangzhou. 2004. "Research on the Parity Progression Fertility Pattern of Chinese Women." China Population Science, 6.
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and J. Surkyn. 2004. "Value Orientations and the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) in Northern, Western and Southern Europe: An Update." Demographic Research, 3: 45-86.
2003
Geronimus, Arline T. 2003. "Damned if you Do: Culture, Identity, Privilege, and Teenage Childbearing in the United States." Social Science and Medicine, 57(5): 881-893.
Sylvester, Kenneth M. 2003. "Immigrant Parents, Ethnic Children, and Family Formation in the Early Prairie West." Canadian Historical Review, 84(4): 585-612.
Ford, Kathleen, W. Sohn, and James M. Lepkowski. 2003. "Ethnicity or Race, Area Characteristics, and Sexual Partner Choice Among American Adolescents." Journal of Sex Research, 40(2): 211-218.
Harding, David J. 2003. "Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on High School Dropout and Teenage Pregnancy." American Journal of Sociology, 109(3): 676-719.
2002
Anderson, Barbara. 2002. "Russia Faces Depopulation? Dynamics of Population Decline." Population and Environment, 23(5): 437-464. Reprint No. 602.
Ford, Kathleen, Linda Weglicki, Trace Kershaw, Cheryl Schram, Paulette J. Hoyer, and Mary L. Jacobson. 2002. "Effects of a Prenatal Care Intervention for Adolescent Mothers on Birth Weight, Repeat Pregnancy and Educational Outcomes at One Year Postpartum." Journal of Perinatal Education, 11(1): 35-38.
Kaplan, Hillard, Jane Lancaster, W. Troy Tucker, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2002. "Evolutionary Approach to Below Replacement Fertility." American Journal of Human Biology, 14: 223-256.
Axinn, William, Arland Thornton, Lishou Yang, Linda C. Young-DeMarco, and Yu Xie. 2002. "Mothers' Reports of Children's Family Formation Behavior." Social Science Research, 31(2): 257-283.
Barber, Jennifer S., Lisa D. Pearce, Indra Chaudhari, and Susan Gurung. 2002. "Voluntary Associations and Fertility Limitation." Social Forces, 80(4): 1369-1401.
Lee, James Z., Cameron D. Campbell, and Feng Wang. 2002. "Positive check or Chinese checks?" Journal of Asian Studies, 61(2): 591-607.
Campbell, Cameron D., Feng Wang, and James Z. Lee. 2002. "Pretransitional fertility in China." Population and Development Review, 28(4): 735-750.
Renne, Elisha. 2002. "Fundamentals of Fertility: Cosmology and Conversion in a Southwestern Nigerian Town." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8(3): 551-69.
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and K. Neels. 2002. "From the First to the Second Demographic Transition: An Interpretation of the Spatial Continuity of Demographic Innovation in France, Belgium and Switzerland." European Journal of Population, 18(4): 325-260.
Chapters
Barber, Jennifer S., and William Axinn. 2005. "How do Attitudes Shape Childbearing in the United States." In The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What it Means edited by Alan C Booth and Ann C. Crouter. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lee, James Z. 2004. "History of the family and historical demography." In Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History edited by Harvey Graff and Leslie Page Moch. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press.
Thornton, Arland, and William Axinn. 2004. "The Social Demography of Fertility: Some Contributions of American Surveys." In Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond edited by J. S. House, F. T Juster, R.L. Kahn, H. Schuman and E. Singer. Pp. 281-304. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Lam, David. 2003. "Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models of Fertility." In Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective edited by K.W. Wachter and R. Bulatao. Pp. 322-338. Washington DC : National Academies Press.Reprint No. 601.
Anderson, Kermyt G., and Bobbi Low. 2003. "Nonmarital First Births and Women's Life Histories." In The Biodemography of Fertility edited by J. Rodgers and H. P. Kohler. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Anderson, Barbara. 2003. "Fertility, Poverty and Gender." In Fertility: Current South African Issues of Poverty, HIV/AIDS & Youth edited by South Africa, Department of Social Development, South Africa and Human Sciences Research Council. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council.
Thornton, Arland, Ronald Freedman, and William Axinn. 2002. "Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children." In Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century edited by Erin Phelps, Frank F Furstenberg and Anne Colby. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Biddlecom, Ann E., and FAD Kaona. 2002. "Obstacles to Fertility Control in an Urban African Setting: The Case of Zambia." In Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Collection of Micro-Demographic Studies edited by S. Agyei-Mensah and J.B. Casterline. Westpost, CT: Greenwood Press.
Conference Proceedings
Marteleto, Leticia, David Lam, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2006. "Sexual Behavior, Childbearing, Union Formation and Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Panel Data." IUSSP Seminar, El Colegio de México Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 6-9 November,
PSC Reports
Barber, Jennifer S., Yasamin Kusunoki, and Heather Gatny. 2009. "Continued and On-Time Participation in a Weekly Online Survey." PSC Research Report No. 09-680. May 2009.
Barber, Jennifer S., and Patricia East. 2007. "Children’s Experiences after the Unintended Birth of a Sibling." PSC Research Report No. 07-625. June 2007.
Brauner-Otto, Sarah, William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "The Spread of Health Services and Fertility Transition." PSC Research Report No. 07-619. February 2007.
Marteleto, Leticia, David Lam, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2006. "Schooling and Early Childbearing in Urban South Africa." PSC Research Report No. 06-610. October 2006.
Barber, Jennifer S., and Amie Emens. 2006. "The Intersection among Unintended, Premarital, and Teenage Childbearing in the U.S." PSC Research Report No. 06-608. September 2006.
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and Lisa Neidert. 2006. "The “Second Demographic Transition” in the U.S.: Spatial Patterns and Correlates." PSC Research Report No. 06-592. March 2006.
Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2006. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children’s Resources." PSC Research Report No. 06-591. March 2006.
Marteleto, Leticia. 2005. "Family Size, Demographic Change, and Educational Attainment: The Case of Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 05-584. November 2005.
Anderson, Barbara. 2003. "Fertility in South Africa: Current Issues and Prospects for the Future." PSC Research Report No. 03-532. February 2003.
Colen, Cynthia G., Arline T. Geronimus, and Maureen G. Phipps. 2002. "Getting a Piece of the Pie? Declining Teen Birth Rates During the 1990s." PSC Research Report No. 02-528. October 2002.
