Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America

• Tackles directly the difficulties of identifying links between economic and demographic factors
• Focus on Latin America in the 1980s lends the volume strong coherence and broadens its appeal beyond demographers to include Latin America specialists.

Readership: Scholars and students of demography; Latin American specialists.

Edited by G. Tapinos, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and INED, France, A. Mason, Program on Population, East-West Center and Department of Economics, and J. Bravo, CELADE, Chile

1: Reynaldo Bajraj, Jorge Bravo, and Georges Tapinos: Economic Adjustment and Demographic Responese in Latin America: An Overview
2: Andrew Mason: The Response of Fertility and Mortality to Economic Crisis and Structural Adjustment Policy during the 1980s: A Review
3: Philip Musgrove: Economic Crisis and Health Policy Response
4: Jere Behrman: The Effect of Structural Adjustment on Food Policy and Nutrition
5: Alberto Palloni and Kenneth Hill: The Effects of Economic Changes on Mortality by Age and Cause: Latin America, 1950-90
6: José Antonio Ortega-Osona and David Reher: Short-term Economic Fluctuations and Demographic Behaviour
7: Jorge Bravo: Demographic Consequences of Economic Adjustment in Chile
8: Eduardo Rios-Neto and José Alberto Magno de Carvalho: The Demographic Consequences of Structural Adjustment: The Case of Brazil
9: David Lam and Deborah Levison: Structural Adjustment and Family Labour Supply in Latin America
10: Brigida García and Orlandina de Oliveira: Economic Recession and Changing Determinants of Women's Work