POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
INDEXPOPULATION AND_____ DEVELOPMENT REVIEW VOLUME 23 NUMBER 1 MARCH 1997 ARTICLES Sex and the Birth Rate: Human Biology, Demographic Change, and Access to Fertility-Regulation Methods MALCOLM POTTS Variability and Growth in Grain Yields, 1950-94: Does the Record Point to Greater Instability? ROSAMOND NAYLOR WALTER FALCON ERIKA ZAVALETA Shifting Costs of Caring for the Elderly Back to Families in Japan: Will It Work? NAOHIRO OGAWA ROBERT D. RETHERFORD Modernization and Divorce: Contrasting Trends in Islamic Southeast Asia and the West GAVIN W. JONES NOTES AND COMMENTARY State Policies and the Birth Rate in Egypt: From Socialism to Liberalism PHILIPPE FARGUES DATA AND PERSPECTIVES Anthropogenic Factors in Land-Use Change in China GERHARD K. HEILIG ARCHIVES F. W. Taussig on Individualism and the Birth Rate BOOK REVIEWS Robin Cohen (ed.). The Cambridge Survey of World Migration MYRON WEINER Philip Kitcher, The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities GRAHAM LYONS JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH Susan Greenhalgh (ed.), Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry CONSTANCE A. NATHANSON Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine ALPHONSE L. MACDONALD David Popenoe, Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence that Fatherhood and Marriage are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society FRANCES K. GOLDSCHEIDER Mariano Tommasi and Kathryn lerulli (eds.), The New Economics of Human Behavior DIANE J. MACUNOVICH J. Ties Boerma, Child Survival in Developing Countries: Can Demographic and Health Surveys Help to Understand the Determinants? STAN BECKER Short Reviews DOCUMENTS Climate Change and Human Health Social Security and the Future of US Fertility US Funding for International Population Programs The Rockefeller Foundation on the US Role in International Population Programs ABSTRACTS AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
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