Research Area: Regional Studies:
Other Africa

Recent Publications

Books

Renne, Elisha. 2003. Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press.

Journal Articles

2009

Obare, F., P. Fleming, P. Anglewicz, Rebecca L. Thornton, F. Martinson, A. Kapatuka, M. Poulin, S. Watkins, and H.P. Kohler. 2009. "Acceptance of repeat population-based voluntary counselling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi." Sexually Transmitted Infections, 85(2): 139-144.

2005

Knodel, John E. 2005. "Researching the Impact of the AIDS epidemic on older-age parents in Africa: Lessons from studies in Thailand." Generations Review, 15(April): 16-22.

2004

Feresu, S.A., Sioban D. Harlow, K. Welch, and B.W. Gillespie. 2004. "Incidence of and Socio-Demographic Risk Factors for Stillbirth, Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Among Zimbabwean Women." Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 18(2): 154-163.

Renne, Elisha. 2004. "Dressing in the stuff of dreams: sacred dress and religious authority in southwestern Nigeria." Dreaming, 14(2-3): 120-135.

2003

Dong, ong H, B. Kouyate, Rachel C. Snow, F. Mugisha, and R. Sauerborn. 2003. "Gender's effect on willingness-to-pay for community-based insurance in Burkina Faso." Health Policy, 64(2): 131-277.

Renne, Elisha, and C.O. Adepegba. 2003. "Yoruba Religious Textiles." The Nigerian Field, 68: 51-60.

2002

Okonofua, F.E., U. Larsen, F. Oronsaye, Rachel C. Snow, and T.E. Slanger. 2002. "The Association Between Female Genital Cutting and Correlates of Sexual and Gynaecological Morbidity in Edo State, Nigeria." Bjog-an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 109(10): 1089-1096.

Slanger, T.E., Rachel C. Snow, and F.E. Okonofua. 2002. "The Impact of Female Genital Cutting on First Delivery in Southwest Nigeria." Studies in Family Planning, 33(2): 173-184.

Snow, Rachel C., T.E. Slanger, F.E. Okonofua, F. Oronsaye, and J. Wacker. 2002. "Female Genital Cutting in Southern Urban and Peri-Urban Nigeria: Self-Reported Validity, Social Determinants and Secular Decline." Tropical Medicine & International Health, 7(1): 91-100.

Renne, Elisha. 2002. "Fundamentals of Fertility: Cosmology and Conversion in a Southwestern Nigerian Town." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8(3): 551-69.

Chapters

Renne, Elisha. 2004. "Gender Roles and Women’s Status: What They Mean to Hausa Muslim Women in Northern Nigeria." In Qualitative Demography: Categories and Contexts in Population Studies edited by S. Szreter, A. Dharmalingam, and H. Sholkamy. 276-94. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Renne, Elisha. 2003. "Changing Assessments of Abortion in a Northern Nigerian Town." In The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion: Global Perspectives. Pp. 119-138. Westport, CT: Praeger.

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.

PSC Reports

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.

Knodel, John E., Susan Watkins, and Mark VanLandingham. 2003. "AIDS and Older Persons: An International Perspective." PSC Research Report No. 02-495. January 2003.

Other Reports

Levinsohn, James A., and Margaret Stokes McMillan. 2005. "Does food aid harm the poor? : household evidence from Ethiopia." NBER Working Paper No. 11048.


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