Economics of population during the 19th and 20th Century

Economics of population during the 19^th and 20^th Century

This lecture is aimed to focus on various issues of economics of population. Many agrarian societies still depend on family labour and in this context children are assets. Contrastingly, in many European countries fertility is decreasing dramatically. In this context, this course should give a broad understanding of relation between population and economy by focusing on fertility, mortality, women, education, and development.

Introduction to the course (PowerPoint)

The broad topics of this course would be:

1. What is economics of population? (May 10th)

2. Fertility and economic development (May 31)

3. Nutrition, health and development (June 7)

4. Role of migration in development (June 14)

5. Education, democracy and development (June 21)

6. Role of women in economic development (June 28)

For completing this course, you should submit an assignment and you should present your findings in class room presentations. Credit for the score depends not only on your quality of assignment but also on your presentation skills, critical and analytical thinking and communication skills.

Completing the assignments for this course will provide you with information literacy, critical reading, thinking, and writing skills, and presentation skills that are necessary prerequisites for success in most university courses.

Economics of population

http://www.prb.org/pdf/populationlivelyintro.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus

http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/essay.html

http://home.ica.net/~drw/pop13a.htm

http://www.kimep.kz/SSE/popdev-k/Topics/Discussions/Theory/Theory.html

http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/Educators/Human_Population/Population_Growth/Population_Growth.htm

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/Papers/gkh1/

http://www2.truman.edu/~rgraber/cultev/agint.html

http://www.clubofrome.org/docs/limits.rtf

http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/Educators/Human_Population/Change/Three_Patterns_of_Population_Change1.htm

Fertility and economic development

http://www.prb.org/pdf/populationlivelyintro.pdf

Read theories of Becker , Esterlin and Caldwell from any demography or population book of Tuebingen library

Nutrition, health and development

http://www.emro.who.int/Publications/EMHJ/0201/02.htm

http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/990928.html

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309048397/html/

Role of migration in development

http://www.prb.org/pdf/populationlivelyintro.pdf

http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/en/pdf/pr5.pdf

Education, democracy and development

Economic reforms in new democracies: a social-democratic approach (Tuebingen library)

Democracy and the market: political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (Tuebingen library)

Democracy and its critics (Tuebingen library)

A preface to economic democracy (Tuebingen library)

Economic determinants of democracy (jstor.org for other related articles)

Role of women in economic development

Women and economic development (Tuebingen library)

Enduring conundrum: India's sex ratio (Tuebingen library)

Women and development (Tuebingen library)

More information from jstor.org

Some suggested topics for assignment

	Missing women concept (declining sex ratio in some Asian countries)
	Biological standard of living
	Gender differences in education.
	Are democratic countries more successful?
	Morbidity in developing countries
	Quality of health in developing countries
	Does a high GDP growth rate reduce poverty?
	Relation between agriculture productivity and health
	Declining fertility in Germany
	Declining fertility in Europe
	Role of migration in the population composition of US and UK
	AIDS in Africa and its impact on population
	Malnutrition in developing countries
	Increasing obesity and its impact on population
	Religion and fertility
	Ageing in Europe
	Participation of women in labor market and its relation to fertility
	Chinese population policy
	International migration
	Urbanization

Topics selected till now

	Jessica Pirntke : Why fertility is declining in Germany?
	Ute Falkner: Role of women in economic development of Latin America
	Patrizia Strupp: The role of migration in the population composition of the US
	Niina Zuber: Participation of women in labor market and its relation to fertility
	Jörg Sautter: Economic impact of AIDS on South Africa
	Elena Luckhardt: Chinese population policy and its impact on Chinese population
	Thomas Weber: Population economics of Ireland
	Tadhg Molony : Population economics of Ireland in the 19th Century
	Linda Twrdek : International migration (place and period not yet confirmed)
	Julia Ruppel: Democracy and Development in Africa
	Fabian Reidinger : Democracy and Development in Asia
	Florian Loesch: Democracy and Development in Latin America
	Lisa m : Decreasing Population in Italy
	Rashid Elshahed: Religion and Fertility
	Sun, Wan-Chun: AIDS in Africa and its impact on population

Where to find data and material?

www.who.int/home-page/

http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/

www.ilo.org

http://www.geohive.com

http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/STATS.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/dsc/stats/int.html

http://www.foodfirst.org

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/Papers/gkh1/

http://www.jstor.org/