Extended Reading List
for Demography 200 / Sociology 220
University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2003

* Denotes readings that were part of the original course syllabus.

I.        Alternative paths to parenthood

A.     Assisted reproductive technologies

“In vitro fertilization, birth defects linked / Studies turn up rare medical abnormalities.”  San Francisco Chronicle, January 24, 2003, p. A-10.  LINK

Blank, Robert H.  Chapters 1-3.  Regulating Reproduction, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Foote, Robert H..  “Developments in Animal Reproductive Biotechnology” (Chapter 1, pp. 3-20).  In: D.P. Wolf and M. Zelinski-Wooten (eds.), Assisted Fertilization and Nuclear Transfer in Mammals, Totowa: NJ: Humana Press, 2001.

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann.  Creating A Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children.  New York: Hyperion, 2002.

B.     Surrogate parenting

Baslington, H.  “The social organization of surrogacy: Relinquishing a baby and the role of payment in the psychological detachment process.”  Journal of Health Psychology 7(1): 57-71, 2002.

New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.  Chapters 5 and 7.  Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy, 1988.

Ragoné, Helena.  Introduction and Chapter 1.  Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

van Niekerk, Anton, and Liezl van Zyl.  “The ethics of surrogacy: Women’s reproductive labor.”  Journal of Medical Ethics 21(6): 345-349, 1995.  R

C.     Alternative family forms

American Academy of Pediatrics [Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health].  “Coparent or second-parent adoption by same-sex parents.”  Pediatrics 109: 339-340, 2002.  R

Clarke, Victoria.  “What about the children? Arguments against lesbian and gay parenting.”  Women’s Studies International Forum 24(5): 555-570, 2001.  R

Golombok, Susan.  “Adoption by lesbian couples.”  British Medical Journal 351: 1407-1408, 2002.  R

Johnson, Suzanne, and Elizabeth O'Connor.  The Gay Baby Boom: The Psychology of Gay Parenthood.  New York University Press, 2002, 192 pp.

Mason, Mary Ann, Mark A. Fine, Sarah Carnochan.  “Family law in the new millennium – For whose families?”  Journal of Family Issues 22 (7): 859-881, 2001.  R

Perrin, Ellen C., and the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health [of the American Academy of Pediatrics].  “Technical report: coparent or second-parent adoption by same-sex parents.”  Pediatrics 109: 341-344, 2002.  R

Savage, Dan.  The Kid : What Happened after My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant: An Adoption Story.  New York: Penguin, 1999, 246 pp.

Stacey, Judith, and Timothy J. Biblarz.  “(How) does the sexual orientation of parents matter?”  American Sociological Review 66: 159-183, 2001.  R

Tasker, F., and Susan Golombok.  Growing up in a lesbian family.  New York: Guilford Press, 1997.

Wardle, Lynn D.  “The potential impact of homosexual parenting on children.”  University of Illinois Law Review ??(3): 833-920, 1997.

Weston, Kath.  Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (2nd ed.).  New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

D.    Adoption and fosterage

Bartholet, Elizabeth.  Nobody’s Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Bitler, Marianne, and Madeline Zavodny.  “Did abortion legalization reduce the number of unwanted children? Evidence from adoptions.”  Family Planning Perspectives 34(1): 25-33, 2002.  R

Brooks, Devon, and Sheryl Goldberg.  “Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster care placements: Can they meet the needs of waiting children?”  Social Work 46(2): 147-157, 2001.  R

Herman, E.  “The paradoxical rationalization of modern adoption.”  Journal of Social History 36(2): 339-+, 2002.  R

Lansford, J.E., R. Ceballo, A. Abbey, et al.  “Does family structure matter? A comparison of adoptive, two-parent biological, single-mother, stepfather, and stepmother households.”  Journal of Marriage and the Family 63(3): 840-851, 2001.  R

Nayo, L. A.  “In nobody's best interests: A consideration of absolute bans on sexual minority adoption from the perspective of the unadopted child.”  University of Louisville Journal of Family Law 35(1): 25-95, 1996.

Shanley, Mary Lyndon.  Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same Sex and Unwed Parents.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 2001.

van den Akker, O. B. A.  “Adoption in the age of reproductive technology.”  Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 19(2): 147-159, 2001.

II.      Social and demographic inequality

A.     Within populations

Barros, Ricardo Paes de, Carlos Corseuil, Rosane Mendonça, and Maurício Cortez Reis.  “Poverty, inequality and macroeconomic instability.”  Discussion paper, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, 2000.  R

Borjas, George, and Valerie A. Ramey.  "Foreign competition, market power, and wage inequality."  Quarterly Journal of Economics 110(4): 1075-1110, 1995.  R

Bound, John, and George Johnson.  "Changes in the structure of wages in the 1980's: An evaluation of alternative explanations."  American Economic Review 82(3): 371-392, 1992.  R

Ferreira, Francisco H.G., and Ricardo Paes de Barros.  “Education and Income Distribution in Urban Brazil, 1976-1996.”  Manuscript, 2000.  [A summarized version of “The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-1996”, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 19(2), 1999.]  R

Fischer, Claude S., and Michael Hout.  “Differences among Americans in living standards across the twentieth century.”  Working paper, draft dated 26 August 2002.  R

Freeman, Richard B.  "Are your wages set in Beijing?”  Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(3): 15-32, 1995.  R

Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo.  “The great compression: The wage structure in the United States at mid-century.”  Quarterly Journal of Economics 107(1): 1-34, 1992.  R

Gottschalk, Peter, and Timothy M. Smeeding.  “Cross-national comparisons of earnings and income inequality.”  Journal of Economic Literature 35(2): 633-687, 1997.  R

Johnson, George.  "Changes in earnings inequality: the role in demand shifts".  Journal of Economic Perspectives 11(2): 41-54, 1997.  R

Katz, Lawrence F., and xxxx Autor.  "Changes in wage structure and earnings inequality."  In: xxx Ashenfelter and David Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, 1999.

Katz, Lawrence F., and Kevin M. Murphy.  "Changes in relative wages, 1963-1987: Supply and demand factors".  Quarterly Journal of Economics 107(1): 35-78, 1992.  R

Krugman, Paul.  “For richer:  How the permissive capitalism of the boom destroyed American equality.”  New York Times Magazine, October 20, 2002, pp. 62-67+.  R

Lewis, Michael.  “In defense of the boom.”  New York Times Magazine, October 27, 2002, pp. 44-49+.  R

Oliver, Adam.  “For debate. On health inequality.”  Journal of Public Health Medicine 22(4): 454-456, 2000.  R

Piketty, Thomas, and Emmanuel Saez.  “Income inequality in the United States, 1913-1998.”  Forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, April 2002.  R

Richardson, J. David.  “Income inequality and trade: How to think, what to conclude.”  Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(3): 33-55, 1995.  R

van Doorslaer, Eddy, Adam Wagstaff, Hattem van der Burg, et al.  “Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US.”  Journal of Health Economics 19(5): 553-583, 2000.  R

Wilmoth, John R., and Mike Dennis.  “Social differences in older adult mortality in the United States: Questions, data, methods, and results.”  In: J-M Robine et al. (eds.), Human longevity, individual life duration, and the growth of the oldest-old population (tentative title), Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press (forthcoming), 2001.  R

Wood, Adrian.  “How trade hurt unskilled workers.”  Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(3): 57-80, 1995.  R

B.     Between populations

Baumol, William J.  “Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show.”  The American Economic Review, 76(5): 1072-1085, 1986.  R

Baumol, William J., and Edward N. Wolff.  ”Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: Reply.”  The American Economic Review, 78(5): 1155-1159, 1988.  R

Bernard, Andrew B.  “Comparing apples to oranges: Productivity convergence and measurement across industries and countries: Reply.”  American Economic Review 91(4): 1168-1169, 2001.  R

Bernard, Andrew B., and Charles I. Jones.  “Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement Across Industries and Countries.”  American Economic Review 86(5): 1216-1238, 1996.  R

Bourguignon, Francois, and Christian Morrisson.  “Inequality among world citizens: 1820-1992.”  American Economic Review 92(4): 727-744, 2002.  R

Diamond, Jared.  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.  New York: Norton, 1997, 480 pp.

Dobson, Stephen, and Carlyn Ramlogan.  “Convergence and divergence in Latin America, 1970-1998.”  Applied Economics 34(4): 465-470, 2002.  R

Firebaugh, Glenn.  “Empirics of world income inequality.”  American Journal of Sociology 104(6): 1597-1630, 1999.  R

Firebaugh, Glenn.  “Observed trends in between-nation income inequality and two conjectures.”  American Journal of Sociology 106(1): 215-221, 2000.  R

Firebaugh, Glenn.  “The trend in between-nation income inequality.”  Annual Review of Sociology 26: 323-339, 2000.  R

Goesling, Brian.  “Changing income inequalities within and between nations: New evidence.”  American Sociological Review 66(5): 745-761, 2001.  R

Korzeniewicz, Roberto P., and Timothy P. Moran.  “Measuring world income inequalities.”  American Journal of Sociology 106(1): 209-214, 2000.  R

Landes, David S.  The wealth and poverty of nations: Why some are so rich and some so poor.  New York: Norton, 1998, 650pp.

Linden, Mikael.  “Trend model testing of growth convergence in 15 OECD countries, 1946-1997.”  Applied Economics 34(2): 133-142, 2002.  R

Mazumdar, Krishna.  “A note on cross-country divergence in standard of living.”  Applied Economic Letters 9(2): 87-90, 2002.  R

Pritchett, Lant.  “Divergence, Big Time.”  Journal of Economic Perspectives 11(3): 3-17, 1997.  R

Rassekh, Farhad.  “The convergence hypothesis: History, theory, and evidence.”  Open Economies Review 9(1): 85-105, 1998.  R

Schultz, T. Paul.  “Inequality in the distribution of personal income in the world: How it is changing and why.”  Journal of Population Economics 11(3): 307-344, 1998.  R

Sorensen, Anders.  “Comparing apples to oranges: Productivity convergence and measurement across industries and countries: Comment.”  American Economic Review 91(4): 1160-1167, 2001.  R

Wilson, Chris.  “On the scale of global demographic convergence.”  Population and Development Review 27(1): 155-171, 2001.  R

III.    Social policies affecting demographic events

A.     Pronatalism

“A tale of two bellies.”  The Economist, 24 August 2002, p. 11.  R

“Half a billion Americans?”  The Economist, 24 August 2002, pp. 20-22.  R

“Mamma mia.”  New Scientist, 20 July 2002, pp. 38-xx.  R

Gauthier, Anne Hélène.  The State and the Family.  Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon, 1996.

Kent, Mary M., and Mark Mather.  “What drives U.S. population growth?”  Population Bulletin 57(4): 1-39, 2002.  R

Kohler, Hans-Peter, Francesco C. Billari, and Jose-Antonio Ortega.  “The emergence of lowest-low fertility in Europe during the 1990s.”  Population and Development Review 28(4): 641-680, 2002.  R

Teitelbaum, Michael S., and Jay M. Winter.  The Fear of Population Decline.  Orlando: Academic Press, 1985.

B.     Health promotion

Andrews, G., K. Sanderson, and J. Beard.  “Burden of disease - Methods of calculating disability from mental disorder.”  British Journal of Psychiatry 173: 123-131, 1998.

Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez.  Summary, The Global Burden of Disease: A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard School of Public Health, 1996.  R

Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez, Colin D. Mathers, and Claudia Stein.  “The Global Burden of Disease 2000 project: aims, methods and data sources.”  Harvard University, Burden of Disease Unit, Research Paper No. 01.1, 2001.  R

Cohen, Jonathan.  “The global burden of disease study: a useful projection of future global health?”  Journal of Public Health Medicine 22(4): 518-524, 2000.  R

Ezzati, Majid, Alan D. Lopez, Anthony Rodgers, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Christopher J. L. Murray, and the Comparative Risk Assessment Collaborating Group.  “Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease.”  Lancet 360 : 1347-60, 2002.  R

Health Promotion: An Anthology, PAHO Scientific Publication, No. 557, 1996.

Hyder, A., and R. Morrow.  “Disease Burden Measurement and Trends.  In:  M. Merson, R. Black, A. Mills, eds., International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Apsen Publishing, 2001.

Murray, Christopher J. L., and Alan D. Lopez.  “Progress and directions in refining the global burden of disease approach: A response to Williams.”  Health Economics 9(1): 69-82, 2000.  R

Powels, John, and Nick Day.  “Interpreting the global burden of disease.”  Lancet 360: 1342, 2002.  R

Williams, Alan.  “Calculating the global burden of disease: Time for a strategic reappraisal?”  Health Economics 8(1): 1-8, 1999.  R

Williams, Alan.  “Comments on the response by Murray and Lopez.”  Health Economics 9(1): 83-86, 1999.  R

IV.   Future scenarios of social and demographic change

A.     Population projections

* National Research Council.  Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World’s Population.  Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.  LINK

* Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov.  “The end of world population growth.”  Nature 412: 543-545, 2001.  R

B.     Genetic engineering

* Lee M. Silver.  Chapters 5-7 and 11-16.  Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World.  New York: Avon Books, 1997.

* Gregory Stock.  Chapters 7-9.  Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.