"Population and development review, a supplement to volume 38, 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.

Intergenerational relations -- Intergenerational transfers, the biological life cycle, and human society / Donald Lee -- The intergenerational welfare state / Nancy Folbre, Douglas Wolf -- Low fertlity and population aging -- Why demographic suicide? : the puzzles of European fertility / Lant Pritchett, Martina Viarengo -- Low fertility in historical perspective / Massimo Livi Bacci -- A demographic perspective on Japan's "lost decades" / Reiko Aoki -- Fertility transition outcomes -- On demographic and democratic transitions / Tim Dyson -- Population change among the elderly : international patterns / Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston -- Ruminations on post-transition demography / Geoffrey McNicoll -- Policy and program : China -- Population, policy, and politics : how will history judge China's one-child policy? / Wang Feng, Yong Cai, Baochang Gu -- Patriarchal demographics : China's sex ratio reconsidered / Susan Greenhalgh -- Policy and program : Africa -- Fertility transition : is sub-Saharan Africa different? / John Bongaarts -- The recent fertility decline in Rwanda / Charles F. Westoff -- Fertility and population policy in Algeria : discrepancies between planning and outcomes / Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi, Jacques Vallin -- Working misunderstandings : donors, brokers, and villagers in Africa's AIDS industry / Susan Cotts Watkins, Ann Swidler -- Environment, technology, and wealth -- Peak farmland and the prospect for land sparing / Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick, Paul E. Waggoner -- National wealth / Partha Dasgupta -- The last eighty years : continuities and change / Vaclav Smil -- Population theory and measurement -- Demographic metabolism : a predictive theory of socioeconomic change / Wolfgang Lutz -- Cross-sections are history / Richard A. Easterlin -- The French school of demography : contextualizing demographic analysis / Veronique Petit, Yves Charbit -- The twilight of the census / David Coleman -- Authors.