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Keeping up with the breaking news in demography

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Can We Keep Feeding a Growing Population? Don't Bet on it

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In 2011, Professor David Lam of the University of Michigan was the President of the Population Association of America and in his presidentia...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

South Koreans Push for the Right to Choose

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For several decades abortion has been a legal and important method of fertility control for women in China and Japan. Not so in South Korea,...
Friday, November 10, 2017

How Well Can We Predict Our Own Survivability?

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Having recently had my own brush with death , I was fascinated by one of the articles in the latest issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Populati...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Will People in Poland Start Breeding Like Rabbits?

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Thanks to Justin Stoler for the link to a BBC video on a new attempt by the Polish government to get people to raise the birth rate--encoura...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Guns are a Public Health Risk in the U.S.--Redux

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It is painful to note that it was scarcely a month ago that I blogged about the fact that guns are a public health problem in the United Sta...
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I am Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University.
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