Ansley J. Coale : An Autobiography

by Coale, Ansley J.

• ISBN13: 9780871692368
• ISBN10: 0871692368
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Introduction	ix
Early Years of My Life	1	(5)
Annapolis High School and Mercersburg	2	(1)
Summer Employment while a Student	3	(3)
College Years	6	(4)
Undergraduate Years at Princeton	6	(2)
Undergraduate Academic Experience at Princeton	8	(2)
Entrance into Graduate School and Meeting Sarah Campbell	10	(4)
Sue Coale (nee Sarah Hamilton Campbell)	10	(2)
My Initiation as Milbank Fellow at the Office of Population Research	12	(2)
Frank W. Notestein	14	(7)
Research Assistant at the OPR to Officer in the Navy	21	(7)
Personal Life while in the Navy	25	(3)
Return to Civilian Life	28	(2)
Intellectual Detours, 1947--1953	30	(4)
The Study of Population Change and Economic Development in Low Income Countries	34	(6)
A Visit to India for the Coale-Hoover Project	36	(2)
The Outcome of the Coale-Hoover Study of Population and Development	38	(2)
Family Life after WWII	40	(7)
The Demographic Transition and the European Fertility Project	47	(3)
General Outline of my Demographic Research	50	(10)
Examples of Research in Analytical Demography: Stable Populations	51	(3)
Analytical Research: Detecting and Correcting Bad Data for the U.S.	54	(1)
Correcting Bad Data from Less Developed Countries	55	(1)
Analytical Research: Creating Demographic Models	56	(4)
International Travel as a Demographer	60	(3)
Professional Activities in Demography outside the University	63	(28)
The United Nations Population Commission	63	(2)
Advisory Missions to African Countries	65	(3)
Advisory Missions to Latin America	68	(3)
Consultant to Population Institute, Haceteppe University, Ankara	71	(1)
Chairman of the Academy of Sciences Committee on Population	71	(6)
Involvement in the World Fertility Survey	77	(2)
Activities Related to China and its Population	79	(3)
Participation in the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and in International Conferences	82	(5)
Visiting Activity at Other Academic Institutions	87	(4)
Teaching and Relation to Students	91	(4)
Recent Fortuitous Conditions for a Demographer	95	(8)
A Unique High Rate of Increase of the World Population	95	(1)
The Mechanism of the Modern Rise and Fall of the Rate of Population Growth: The Demographic Transition	96	(2)
Expansion of Data on Population	98	(1)
Sample Surveys	99	(1)
The Modern Growth in Population Studies	100	(1)
The Growth of Population Studies in this Century	101	(2)
Conclusion	103	(2)
Curriculum Vitae	105	(10)
Illustrations	115	(18)
Index	133