Demography at the ANU

19 Feb: Tuesday Demography Seminar with Kirsty Wissing “Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana”.

28 Feb-1 March: Conference: Fertility Transitions, Past and Present. Closed conference presented jointly by the ANU School of Demography and the ANU Centre for Economic History. Full draft program available here. Contact James Raymer or Edith Gray if you are interested in attending the conference.

This program includes:

1 March “Pathways through fertility transition in developing countries; 1960-2015”
(Tom Moultrie University of Cape Town)
“Stopping and Spacing in Settler South Africa’s Fertility Transition”
Martine Mariotti (RSE, ANU) and Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University)

Recent Demography Publications

Collin Payne, Luca Maria Pesando, Hans-Peter Kohler. Private intergenerational transfers, family structure and health in a sub-Saharan African context, Population and Development Review (online) pp 1-40.

Joanie M Mitchell, Mark Tomlinson, Ruth M Bland, Brian Houle, Alan Stein and Tamsen J Rochat. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Kaufman assessment battery in a sample of primary school-aged children in rural South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology 2018, Vol. 48(4) 434-452

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