General Textbook Reference

 

 

Weeks, John R. 2008. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (10th Edition). Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Poston, Dudley.L. and Bouvier, L.F. 2010. Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Reading List

 

Lecture 1 Introduction to Demography and Chinese Population

Wang, Feng. 2011. The Future of a Demographic Over-achiever: Long-term Implications of the Demographic Transition in China. Population and Development Review S37: 173-190.

Lee, James and Wang, Feng. 1999. Malthusian Models and Chinese Realities: the Chinese Demographic System 1700 – 2000. Population and Development Review 25 (1): 33-65.

 

Lecture 2, 3 China’s Fertility Transitions

Morgan, S. Philip, Guo, Zhigang, and Hayford, R. Sarah. 2009. China’s Below Replacement Fertility: Recent Trends and Future Prospects. Population and Development Review 35 (3): 605-629.

Cai, Yong. 2010. China’s Below Replacement Fertility: Government Policy or Socioeconomic Development. Population and Development Review 36 (3): 419-440.

Cai, Yong. 2013. China’s Demographic Challenges: Gender Imbalance. Manuscript.

 

Lecture 4, 5 China’s Fertility Policy and Policy Implications

Gu, Baochang, Wang, Feng, Guo, Zhigang and Zhang, Erli. 2007. China's Local and National Fertility Policies at the End of the Twentieth Century. Population and Development Review 33(1): 129-147.

Peng, Xizhe. 2004. Is It Time to Change China's Population Policy. China: an International Journal 2(1): 135-149.

Peng, Xizhe and Huang, Juan. 1999. Chinese Traditional Medicine and Abnormal Sex Ratio at Birth in China. Journal of Biosocial Science 31(4): 487-503.

 

Lecture 6 Mortality and Health

Cai, Yong. 2013. China’s New Demographic Realities: Learning from the 2010 Census. Population and Development Review 39(3): 371-396.

Chen, Yuyu, Ebenstein, Avraham, Greenstone, Michael and Li, Hongbin. 2013. Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy, PNAS 110(32): 12936-12941.

Yip, Winnie and Hsiao, William. 2009. China’s Heath Care Reform: a Tentative Assessment. China Economic Review 20:613-619

 

Lecture 7 Demographic Transition and Population Aging

Peng, Xizhe. 2011. China’s Demographic History and Future Challenges. Science 333(6042): 581-587.

Lee, Ronald. 2003. The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(4): 167-190.

Cai, Yong, Wang, Feng, Li, Ding, Wu, Xiwei, and Shen, Ke. 2013. China’s Age of Abundance: When Will it Run Out? Manuscript.

 

Lecture 8, 9 Migration and Urbanization

Chan, Kam Wing. 2010. The Household Registration System and Migrant Labor in China: Notes on a Debate. Population and Development Review 36(2): 357-364.

Zhang, Li. 2012. Economic Migration and Urban Citizenship in China: The Role of Points Systems. Population and Development Review 38(3) : 503–533.

Xiang, Biao. 2007. How Far Are the Left-behind Left Behind? A Preliminary Study in Rural China. Population, Space and Place 13: 179-191.

Lu, Yao and Wang, Feng. 2013. From General Discrimination to Segmented Inequality: Migration and Inequality in Urban China. Social Science Research 42: 1443-1452.

 

Lecture 10  Social Change and Marriage 

Das Gupta, Monica, Ebenstein, Avraham, and Sharygin, Ethan Jennings. 2010. China’s Marriage Market and Upcoming Challenges for Elderly Men. Policy Research Working Paper.

Wang, Qingbin and Zhou, Qin. 2010. China’s divorce and remarriage rates: trends and regional disparities. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 51(4): 257-267.

Cai, Yong and Wang, Feng. 2011. (Re)emergence of Late Marriage in New Shanghai. Paper Prepared for the Conference on Marriage in Cosmopolitan China, Hong Kong University, July 4-6, 2011.

 

Lecture 11 China’s Education Reforms

Heckman, J. James. 2005. China’s human capital investment. China Economic Review 16: 50-70.

Li, Fengliang, Morgan, W. John, and Ding, Xiaohao. 2008. The Expansion of Higher Education, Employment and Over-education in China. International Journal of Education Development 28: 687-697.

Li, Yao Amber, Whalley, John, Zhang, Shunming, and Zhao, Xiliang. 2011. The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications. The World Economy 34(4): 516–545.

 

Lecture 12 Population and Economic Change

Cai, Fang. 2010. Demographic Transition, Demographic Dividend, and the Lewis Turning Point in China. China Economic Journal 3(2): 107-119.

Wang, Feng and Mason, Andrew. 2008. The Demographic Factor in China's transition. In China's Great Economic Transformation, edited by L. Brandt and T.G. Rawski, 136-166. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wang, Feng. 2012. Racing Toward Precipice. China Economic Quarterly June17-21.