REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH COMPREHENSIVE EXAM

Fall 2007 Reading List

1. Family Planning / Reproductive Health Programs

  1. McIntosh, C. A. and J. L. Finkle. 1995. The Cairo Conference on Population and

Development. Population and Development Review 21: 223-260.

  1. Pritchett, Lant H. 1994. “Desired fertility and the impact of population policies.” Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.1-55.
  1. Hodgson, Dennis and Susan Cotts Watkins. “Feminists and Neo-Malthusians: Past and Present Alliances.” PDR. 1997
  1. Bongaarts, J. 1991. “The KAP-Gap and the Unmet Need for Contraception.” Population and Development Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 293-313.
  1. Crossette, Barbara. 2004. “Has the Cairo Consensus Lost Momentum: A Journalist’s View”. 37th Meeting of Commission on Population and Development, UN.
  1. Potter, J. E. and A. I. Mundigo. 2004. “Fertility Planning”, Chapter in The Handbook of Population, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Michael Micklin, editors, forthcoming
  1. Finkle, J.L. and C.A. McIntosh. 2002. “United Nations population conferences: Shaping the policy agenda for the twenty-first century.” Studies in Family Planning 33 (1): 11-23.
  1. Harbison, S.F. and W.C. Robinson. 2002. “Policy implications of the next world demographic transition.” Studies in Family Planning 33(1): 37-48.
  1. Obermeyer, C. M. 1999. The Cultural Context of Reproductive Health: Implications for Monitoring the Cairo Agenda. International Family Planning Perspectives 25(supplement): 50-55.

1. 1 Family Planning / Reproductive Health Programs in Latin America.

  1. Potter, J.E. and R. Tuiran-Gutierrez. 2005. “Population and Development: Then and Now,” in Rethinking Latin American Development, (eds.) C.H. Wood and B.R. Roberts. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. Pp. 249-268.
  1. Demografia e ideologia: trajetos históricos e os desafios do Cairo + 10. Alves, José Eustáquio and Sônia Corrêa
  1. Cairo+10: os desafios no Brasil e na América Latina Cooper Patriota, Tânia
  1. As Políticas Populacionais e os Direitos Reprodutivos: “O Choque de Civilizações” versus Progressos Civilizatórios. Alves, José Eustáquio
  1. Mundigo, Axel. 1996. “The Role of Family Planning Programs in the Fertility Transition of Latin America.” Pp. 192-212 in The Fertility Transition in Latin America.
  1. Moreno, Lorenzo and Singh, Susheela. 1996. “Fertility Decline Change in Proximate Determinants in the Latin American and Caribbean Regions.” Pp. 113-134 in The Fertility Transition in Latin America.
  1. Larragana, O. 2006. Fertilidad en Chile, 1960-2003. Paper presented at the 2006 Encuentro de la Sociedad de Economia de Chile, available at
  1. Guzmán, José M. 1996. “Introduction: Social Change and Fertility Decline in Latin American.” Pp. xxiixxxi in The Fertility Transition in Latin America, Eds. José M. Guzmán, Susheela Singh, Germán Rodriguez, and Edith A. Pantelides. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  1. Chackiel, Juan and Schkolnik, Susana. 2003. “América Latina: los sectores rezagados en la transición de la fecundidad”. Serie Población y Desarrrollo 42. Celade.
  1. Rodríguez, Jorge. 2003. “La fecundidad alta en América Latina y el Caribe: un riesgo en transición”. Serie Población y Desarrrollo 46. Celade.

2. Diffusion, Social Interaction and Development Structural Changes.

  1. Bongaarts, John; Watkins, Susan C. 1996. Social interactions and contemporary fertility transitions. Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, Dec. pp. 639-82 on general reading list
  1. 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): 290-30 on general reading list
  1. Cleland, J. and C. Wilson. 1987. Demand theories of the fertility transition: An iconoclastic view. Population Studies 41:5-30.
  1. 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
  1. Kohler, H.-P. 1997. “Learning in Social Networks and Contraceptive Choice,” Demography 34(3): 369-384.
  1. Montgomery, M. and J. Casterline. 1996. Social learning, social influence, and new models of fertility. Pp. S151-S175 in J. Casterline, R. Lee, and K. Foote (eds.) Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories. Supplement to Population and Development Review 22.
  1. Behrman, J. R., H.-P. Kohler, and S. C. Watkins. 2002. “Social Networks and Changes in Contraceptive Use over Time: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Rural Kenya.” Demography 39 (4): 713-738.
  1. Entwisle, B., R. 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.
  1. Brown, J. C. and T. W. Guinnane. 2002. Fertility transition in a rural, Catholic population: Bavaria, 1880-1910. Population Studies 56 (1): 35-49.

2.1 Diffusion, Social Interaction and Contraceptive Choice in Latin America.

  1. Potter, J. E. 1999. “The Persistence of Outmoded Contraceptive Regimes: The Cases of Mexico and Brazil”. Population and Development Review 25(4): 703-739.
  1. Potter, J. E., C. Schmertmann, and S. M. Cavenaghi.2002. Fertility and Development: Evidence from Brazil. Demography 39(4): 739-761. on general reading list.
  1. Bravo, Jorge. 1996. “Theoretical Views of Fertility Transition in Latin America: What is the relevance of the diffusionist approach?” Pp. 213-226 in The Fertility Transition in Latin America.
  1. Faria, Vilmar. 1989. "Politicas de governo e regulacao da fecundidade: Consequencias não antecipadas e efeitos perversos," in Ciencias sociais hoje 1989. Sao Paulo: Ed.Vertice, pp. 62-103. (Benson en sala: H 8 P8 C56 1989-91)
  1. Balan, Jorge, and Silvina Ramos. 1989. “La medicalización del comportamiento reproductivo: un estudio exploratorio sobre la demanda de anticonceptivos en los sectores populares”. Documento CEDES 29. Buenos Aires : CEDES, 1989 (Benson: HQ 763.6 A7 B35 1989 ).
  1. Carvalho, Jose Alberto and Rodriguez Wong, Laura. 1996. “The Fertility Transition in Brazil: Causes and Consequences.” Pp. 373-396 in The Fertility Transition in Latin America.
  1. LAM, D., & DURYEA, S.(1999) Effects of schooling on fertility, labor supply, and investment in children with evidence from Brazil. Journal of Human Resources, v.34, n.1, p.160-192.
  1. MARTINE, G. (1996) Brazil’s Fertility Decline, 1965-95: A Fresh Look at Key Factors. Population and Development Review. V. 22. No.1 pp. 47-75.
  1. Rosero-Bixby, 1996. Nuptiality Trends and Fertility Transition in Latin America.
  1. Rosero Bixby, Luis and Casterline, John. Modeling Diffusion Effects in Fertility Transition.
  1. Zavala de Cosio, Maria Eugenia. 1996. The demographic Transition in Latin America and Europe

3. Below Replacement Fertility and the Second Demographic Transition

  1. Rindfuss, R. R., K. Guzzo, and S. P. Morgan. 2000. “The Changing Institutional Context of Low Fertility,” Population Policy and Research Review 22(5/6): 411-438.
  1. Demeny, Paul. 2003. “Population Policy Dilemmas in Europe at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century”. Population and Development Review 29(1): 1-28.
  1. Lesthaeghe, R. and P. Willens. 1999. “Is Low Fertility Only a Temporary Phenomenon in the European Union?” Population and Development Review 25(2): 211-228.
  1. Livi-Bacci. M. 2001. “Too Few Children and Too Much Family. (young adults overly dependent on parents)” Daedalus Summer 130 (3) p139 (6498 words).
  1. McDonald, 2006. “Low Fertility and the State: The Efficacy of Policy.” Population and Development Review 32(2): 485-510.
  1. Morgan, S. P. 2003. “Is Low Fertility a Twenty-First Century Demographic Crisis?”, Demography 40(4): 589-603.
  1. Sobotka T. 2004. “Is lowest-low fertility in Europe explained by the postponement of childbearing?” Population and Development Review 30 (2): 195-205.
  1. Bongaarts, J. 2000. ¿Fertility and Reproductive Preferences in Post-Transitional Societies.¿ In Bulatao and Casterline (eds) Global Fertility Transition.
  1. 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

3.1 Below Replacement Fertility and the Second Demographic Transition in Latin America.

  1. Catasus de Cervera, Sonia and Fraga, Juan Carlos Alfonso. 1996. The Fertility Transition in Cuba“.” Pp. 414-437 in The Fertility Transition in Latin America.
  1. Cambios y desigualdad en las familias latinoamericanas. Arriagada, Irma. Revista de la Cepal 77, 2002.
  1. Goldani, Ana Maria. What Will Happen to Brazilian Fertility?

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