Research

Special Session Documents

The following research reports and presentations were prepared for a special session organized by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan, on May 2, 2009. 

(The documents below should be considered working drafts and will be updated as revised versions become available.)

John Bongaarts
Population Council
Report: Population Growth and Policy Options in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)
PowerPoint Presentation: Population Growth and Policy Options in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

John B. Casterline
Ohio State University, Initiative in Population Research
Report: Fertility Desires and the Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa (PDF)
PowerPoint Presentation: Fertility Desires and the Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa (PDF)

John Cleland (principal investigator), Angela Baschieri, Claire Bailey and Jane Falkingham
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
University of Southampton School of Social Sciences
PowerPoint Presentation: The women ‘work-fertility' link in Africa: a re-assessment of recent evidence (PDF) 

Jim Phillips, PhD (principal investigator)
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Ayaga Agula Bawah, PhD
INDEPTH Network, Accra Ghana
Article: The Long Term Fertility Impact of the Navrongo Experiment in Northern Ghana

Reviewers:

Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue
Cornell University
Report: Human Development, Family Planning, and Youth: Contributions to Future Population Growth in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

Ruth Levine
Center for Global Development
Report: Reflections on High Fertility and Policy Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

T. Paul Schultz
Yale University
Report: Comments on the Presentations (PDF)
PowerPoint Presentation: Comments on Four Presentations (PDF)