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Scholarly Activities on Eastern Europe Demography

Useful links

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
http://www.nceeer.org/index.htm

Living Abroad on a Temporary Basis - The Economic Migration of Romanians: 1990 - 2006
http://www.fsd.ro/en/detalii_program.php?id_prog=34

New Europe College, Romania
http://www.nec.ro/

Books and articles

General demography

  • Bucur, M. (2002) Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Eberstadt, Nicholas (1994) Demographic Shocks after Communism: Eastern Germany 1989-1993. Population and Development Review 20,1.
  • Hajnal, John (1982) Two Kinds of Preindustrial Household Formation System. Population and Development Review 8.3.
  • Macura, Milos (1974) Population Policies in Socialist Countries of Europe . Population Studies 28, pp. 369-379.
  • Manning, Nick (2004) Diversity and change in pre-accession Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. Journal of European Social Policy 14, pp. 211-232.
  • Monnier, A. and Rychtarikova J. (1992) The Division of Europe into East and West. Population: an English Selection 4, pp. 129-159.
  • Todorova, Maria (1993) Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern. Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria . American University Press, Washington DC .
  • Tomka, Béla (2002) Demographic Diversity and Convergence in Europe , 1918-1990: The Hungarian case. Demographic Research 6, ( www.demographic-research.org )

Fertility

  • Adler, Marina A. (1997) Social Change and Declines in Marriage and Fertility in Eastern Germany . Journal of Marriage and the Family 59, pp. 37-49.
  • Althaus, F. (1992) Replacement-level Fertility has Now Become the Rule in Most of Eastern Europe. Family Planning Perspectives 24.
  • Berent, Jerzy (1970) Causes of Fertility Decline in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . Population Studies 24, Issue 1 and 2.
  • Botev, Nikolai (1990) Nuptiality in the Course of the Demographic Transition: The Experience of the Balkan Countries. Population Studies 44.
  • Carlson, Elwood, and Meguni Omori (1998) Fertility Regulations in a Declining State Socialist Economy: Bulgaria , 1976-1995. International Family Planning Perspectives 24.
  • David, Henry P. and Joanna Skilogianis (eds.) (1999) From Abortion to Contraception . London: Greenwood Press.
  • Demeny, Paul (1986) Pronatalist Policies in Low-Fertility Countries: Patterns, Performances, and Prospects. Population and Development Review 12, Issue Supplement: Below Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies: Causes, Consequences, Policies, pp. 335-358.
  • Fialova, L., Z. Pavlik, P.Veres (1990) Fertility Decline in Czechoslovakia During the Last Two Centuries. Population Studies 44,1.
  • Hajnal, John (1965) "European Marriage Patterns in Perspective"; in Glass, V. D. and Eversley, D. E. C. (eds.): Population in History. London.
  • Kucera, Tomas et al. (eds.) (2000) New Demographic Faces of Europe: The Changing Population Dynamics in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe . Springer, Heidelberg.
  • Sklar, June (1974) The Role of Marriage Behavior in the Demographic Transition: The Case of Eastern Europe around 1900. Population Studies 28.2.
  • Sobotka, Tomas (2004) Is lowest-low fertility in Europe explained by the postponement of childbearing? Population and Development Review 30.2

Mortality

  • Compton , P.A. (1985) Rising Mortality in Hungary.Population Studies 39, pp. 71-86.
  • Nadezhda, Aleshina and Redmond, Gerry (2005) How High Is Infant Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States? Population Studies 59, pp. 39-54.
  • Cockerham, William C. (1997) The Social Determinants of the Decline of Life Expectancy in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Lifestyle Explanation. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38, pp. 117-130.

Migration

  • Ball, Blaine and George Demko (1978) Internal Migration in the Soviet Union. Economic Geography 54. pp. 95-114.
  • Fuchs, Roland J. and George Demko (1978) The Postwar Mobility Transition in Eastern Europe. Geographical Review 68. pp. 171-182.
  • Grandstaff, Peter (1980) Interregional Migration in the U.S.S.R . Duke University Press, Durham, NC .
  • Kaczmarczyk, Pawel and Marek Okolski (2005) International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe – Current and Future Trends . UN Population Division, New York.
  • Kosinski, Leszek A. (1975) Interregional migration in East-Central Europe , in: Kosinski Leszek A. and Mansell Prothero (eds.) People on the Move. Studies on Internal Migration . Meuthen and Co., London.
  • Kostanick, Huey L (ed.) (1977) Population and Migration Trends in Eastern Europe . Westview Press, Boulder , Colorado.
  • Laczko, Frank (ed.) (2002) New Challenges for Migration Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • Sandu, Dumitru (2005) Emerging Transnational Migration from Romanian Villages. Current Sociology 53, pp. 555-582.
  • Sandu, Dumitru (2005) Dynamics of Romanian Emigration after 1989: From a Macro-level to a Micro-Level Approach. International Journal of Sociology 35, pp. 36-56.

Urbanization

  • Andrusz, G., Harloe, M. and Szelényi I. (eds.) (1996) Cities After Socialism. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA.
  • Konrád, György and Szelényi, Iván (1974) Social Conflicts of Underurbanization. in: Alan Brown, Joseph Licari and Egon Neuberger (eds.) Urban and Social Economics in Market and Planned Economies. Policy, Planning and Development. Vol. 1., University of Winsdor Press, Praeger, New York.
  • Pivovarov, Iurii (2003) The Urbanization of Russia in the Twentieth Century. Sociological Research 42, pp. 45-65.