Presentations on the Demography of Ethiopia
Population Studies and Training Center
Brown University

“Household Vulnerability to Food Crisis and Mortality in the Drought Prone Areas of Northern Ethiopia.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., 1997 (Markos Ezra and Gebre-Egziabher Kiros).

“The Impact of War and Economic Crisis on Marital Fertility in Ethiopia: Evidence from Urban Areas and the Rural Central Highlands.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., 1997 (David P. Lindstrom and Betemariam Berhanu).

“Women’s Status and Contraceptive Innovation in Urban Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., 1997 (Betemariam Berhanu and Dennis P. Hogan).

“War, Famine, and Female Migration in Ethiopia, 1960-89.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, 1998 (Betemariam Berhanu and Michael J. White).

“The Effects of Breastfeeding and Birth Spacing on Infant and Early Childhood Mortality in Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998 (David P. Lindstrom and Betemariam Berhanu).

“Fertility In Tigray, Ethiopia: 1979-1994.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998 (Gebre-Egziabher Kiros).

“Reducing Infant Mortality in Ethiopia: Implications for Policy Interventions.” Paper presented at the Workshop in Population Policy Communication Organized and Sponsored by the Population Reference Bureau, Chicago, 1998 (Betemariam Berhanu).

“Women's Education, Fertility And Contraceptive Use In Ethiopia: Reducing Fertility Motivations and Desires.” Paper presented at the Workshop in Population Policy Communication Organized and Sponsored by the Population Reference Bureau, Chicago, 1998 (Gebre-Egziabher Kiros).

“Contraceptive Resistance in Southern Ethiopia: Do Household Organization and Women's Autonomy Matter?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 1999 (Betemariam Berhanu, Assefa Hailemariam and Dennis P. Hogan).

“Household Organization, Women’s Autonomy, and Contraceptive Behavior in Southern Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 1999 (Betemariam Berhanu, Assefa Hailemariam, and Dennis P. Hogan).

“The Impact of Famine, War, And Environmental Degradation on Infant and Early Child Mortality in Africa: The Case of Tigray, Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 1999 (Gebre-Egziabher Kiros and Dennis P. Hogan)

“The Impact of Postmarital Residence on Fertility, Early Childhood Mortality, and Child Health in Rural Villages of Southern Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 1999 (Gebre-Egziabher Kiros and David I. Kertzer).

“Nuptiality Patterns and Household Structures Among Five Different Ethnic Groups in Southern Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 1999 (Markos Ezra, Eshetu Gurmu, and Dennis P. Hogan).

“Preceding Birth Intervals and Child Survival: Analysis of the 1997 Community and Family Survey Data in Southern Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 1999 (Markos Ezra, Eshetu Gurmu, and Dennis P. Hogan).

“Environmental Stress as a Demographic Corrective in the Drought Prone Areas of Northern Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Fondation des Treilles conference The Demography of Famines – Perspectives from the Past and the Present. Paris, 1999 (Markos Ezra).

“Social Identity and Community in the Fertility of Southern Ethiopian Women.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, 2000 (Dennis P. Hogan and Betemariam Berhanu).

“The Impact of Infant and Child Death on Subsequent Fertility in Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, 2001 (David P. Lindstrom and Gebre-Egziabher Kiros).

"The Proximate Determinants of the Decline to Below Replacement Fertility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Atlanta, GA, 2002 (Amson Sibanda, Zewdu Woubalem, Dennis P. Hogan, and David P. Lindstrom).

"Social Identity and Community Effects on Fertility Limitation in Southern Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the 40 th Anniversary of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Demography and Ecology 2002 (Dennis Hogan and Belay Biratu).

"The Influence of Husband’s Attitudes on the Use of Prenatal Care in Ethiopia.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, 2003. (Belay Biratu and David P. Lindstrom).

"Tradition and Change: The Transition to Adulthood among Ethiopian Women.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2005 (David P. Lindstrom, Gebre-Egziabher Kiros, and Dennis P. Hogan).

“Tradition and Change: The Transition to Adulthood among Ethiopian Men and Women,” Demography Colloquium, Duke University, March 2, 2006 (David P. Lindstrom).

“The Resilient Families of Ethiopia.” 4 th Annual Rees Alumni Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 5, 2006 (Dennis P. Hogan).

“Preliminary Results from the Gilgel Gibe Social and Sexual Relationship History Survey: A New Method for Soliciting Responses to Sensitive Questions.” 4 th Annual Wits-Brown-Colorado-APHRC Colloquium, African Population and Health Research Center Colloquium, Nairobi, Kenya, May 22-25, 2006 (David P. Lindstrom).