Philip Morgan's Assigned Readings

Reference: Introductory reference on operationalization, measurement and research design

Babbie, Earl. 1989 (or more recent). The Practice of Social Research. Belmont, Ca.:  Wadsworth.

References: On the importance of measurement and research design

Freedman, David A. 1991. "Statistical models and shoe leather." Pp 291-313 in Sociological Methodology, Volume 21, 1991. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Also see comments on this paper in same volume)

References: A published example of how to translate a "research question" into "equations to be estimated"

Smith, Herbert L. 1989. 'Integrating theory and research on the institutional determinants of Fertility'. Demography, 26:171-84.

References: Studies applying the data and methods discussed in the illustrative (Mason, Smith, Morgan) proposal Leridon, H. 1990. Leridon, H. 1990.

Dharmalingam, A. and S. Philip Morgan. 1996. "Women's work, autonomy and birth control: Evidence from two south Indian villages." Population Studies forthcoming.

Morgan, S. Philip and Bhanu B. Niraula. 1995. "Gender inequality and fertility in two Nepal villages." Population and Development Review 21:541-561..

Niraula, Bhanu and S. Philip Morgan. 1996. "Marriage formation, post-marital contact with natal kin and the autonomy of women: Evidence from two Nepali settings." Population Studies 50:35-50.

References on selecting "samples for analysis" from retrospective histories (cohort and period using lexis diagrams)

Rindfuss, Ronald R., James A. Palmore and Larry L. Bumpass. 1982. "Selectivity and the analysis of birth intervals from survey data." Asian and Pacific Census Forum 8:5-10, 15-16

Leridon, H. 1990. "Cohabitation, marriage, separation: An analysis of life histories of French cohorts from 1968 to 1985." Population Studies 44:127-44.

Leridon, H. 1989. Population (English Selection No. 1, 1989). send me an e-mail message: pmorgan@sas.upenn.edu