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Geoffrey McNicoll is a senior associate in the Policy Research Division and a member of the editorial board of Population and Development Review. His main research interests are the comparative analysis of demographic regimes, the institutional determinants of fertility, the consequences of population change, and population policy. Current research is on government roles in demographic change in strong and weak states.
McNicoll has a B.Sc. from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. in demography from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a research associate at the East-West Population Institute, Honolulu, and subsequently held various posts in the Population Council's Center for Policy Studies. From 1988 to 2000 he was a professor in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, since 1994 combining this post with his position at the Council. He has also worked in the Central Bureau of Statistics, Jakarta, and at the National Planning Association, Washington, DC. Click here for CV.
A partial list of publications includes:
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 2004. "Demographic future of East Asian regional integration," in T.J. Pempel (ed.), Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 158. New York: Population Council, 2002. (PDF) (abstract)
Demeny, Paul and Geoffrey McNicoll (eds.). 2003. Encyclopedia of Population. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. (information about book)
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 2002. "Managing population environment systems: Problems of institutional design," in Wolfgang Lutz, Alexia Prskawetz, and Warren C. Sanderson (eds.), Population and Environment: Methods of Analysis, supplement to Population and Development Review. New York: Population Council, pp. 144 164. (information about PDR supplements) Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 139. New York: Population Council, 2001. (PDF) (abstract)
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 2001. Government and fertility in transitional and post-transitional societies, in Rodolfo A. Bulatao and John B. Casterline (eds.) Global Fertility Transition, supplement to Population and Development Review. New York: Population Council, pp. 129 159. (information about PDR supplements) Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 113. New York: Population Council, 1998. (PDF) (abstract)
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 1999. Population weights in the international order, Population and Development Review 25(3): 411-442. (PDF)
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 1997. Governance of fertility transition: Reflections on the Asian experience, in Gavin W. Jones, Robert M. Douglas, John C. Caldwell, and Rennie M. D'Souza (eds.), The Continuing Demographic Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 365 382. Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 85. New York: Population Council, 1996 | 