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- PhD Sociology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ronald Freedman was an international demographer and founder of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He led pioneering survey research on fertility in Asia. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Freedman grew up in Waukegan, Illinois. He received a BA in history and economics from the University of Michigan in 1939, and a master's degree in sociology in 1940. At the University of Chicago he completed prelims for his PhD in sociology before joining the U.S. Army in 1942 to serve in the Air Corps Weather Service.
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- The record of family planning programs. (1976) (188)
- Theories of Fertility Decline: A Reappraisal (1979) (185)
- Family Planning, Sterility, and Population Growth (1960) (184)
- Family Planning in Taiwan: An Experiment in Social Change (1969) (175)
- Do family planning programs affect fertility preferences? A literature review. (1997) (105)
- Norms for family size in underdeveloped areas (1963) (96)
- The Rise in Female Education in China: National and Regional Patterns (1990) (95)
- Household composition, extended kinship and reproduction in Taiwan: 1973-1980. (1982) (91)
- Fertility and Family Planning (1970) (89)
- Childspacing and family economic position. (1966) (88)
- Fertility and Family Planning, A World View. (1970) (82)
- The contribution of social science research to population policy and family planning program effectiveness. (1987) (81)
- The Origins of the Chinese Fertility Decline (1990) (81)
- Trends in fertility, family size preferences, and family planning practice: Taiwan, 1961-80. (1978) (80)
- The Population of Israel. (1980) (70)
- The Sociology of Human Fertility: a Trend Report and Bibliography (1961) (67)
- Size of Family and Preference for Children of Each Sex (1960) (67)
- The Sociology of Human Fertility (1963) (61)
- Do intentions predict fertility? The experience in Taiwan, 1967-74. (1979) (60)
- Economic considerations in family growth decisions. (1966) (56)
- Marital Fertility and Size of Family of Orientation (1965) (55)
- Taiwan's transition from high fertility to below-replacement levels. (1994) (54)
- A STUDY IN FERTILITY CONTROL. (1964) (52)
- Fertility Transition: An Update (1992) (49)
- Household composition, extended kinship, and reproduction in Taiwan: 1965-1985. (1990) (48)
- Asia's recent fertility decline and prospects for future demographic change (1995) (47)
- Pre-marital pregnancy, childspacing, and later economic achievement. (1970) (47)
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Data on Two Factors in Fertility Behavior (1974) (47)
- Premarital Pregnancy and Status Before and After Marriage (1970) (46)
- Household composition and extended kinship in Taiwan. (1978) (45)
- Fertility differentials for the indigenous non-farm population of the United States (1961) (44)
- Socio-economic factors in religious differentials in fertility. (1961) (43)
- Trends in fertility, family size preferences, and practice of family planning: Taiwan, 1965-1973. (1974) (43)
- The stability and reliability of expected family size data. (1959) (41)
- Changes in fertility expectations and preferences between 1962 and 1977: Their relation to final parity (1980) (39)
- The role of family planning programs as a fertility determinant. (1989) (37)
- USE OF TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS IN A LONGITUDINAL FERTILITY STUDY (1964) (35)
- Trends in family size preferences and practice of family planning: Taiwan 1965-1970. (1972) (35)
- Local Area Variations in Reproductive Behaviour in the People's Republic of China, 1973–1982 (1988) (34)
- The sociology of human fertility : an annotated bibliography (1976) (33)
- Fertility and Family Planning in Taiwan: A Case Study of the Demographic Transition (1964) (33)
- Expected family size and family size values in West Germany. (1959) (33)
- Current Fertility Expectations of Married Couples in the United States: 1963 (1965) (30)
- Do statements about desired family size predict fertility? the case of Taiwan, 1967–1970 (1975) (29)
- The human population. (1974) (29)
- Policy options after the demographic transition: the case of Taiwan. (1986) (27)
- Stability and change in expectations about family size: A longitudinal study (1965) (27)
- Community-level data in fertility surveys (1974) (26)
- Family planning in the U. S. (1959) (23)
- Use of modern contraceptives in Indonesia: a challenge to the conventional wisdom. (1981) (23)
- Fertility Trends in Taiwan: 1961-1970 (1972) (23)
- The transition from high to low fertility: challenge to demographers. (1965) (22)
- Similarities in the fertility transition in China and three other east Asian populations. (1993) (21)
- "Ideals" about family size in the Detroit metropolitan area: 1954. (1955) (21)
- Taiwan's family planning program. Large-scale family planning programs may be more effective than is sometimes believed. (1968) (20)
- Fertility trends in Taiwan: Tradition and change (1963) (19)
- Recent Migration to Chicago. (1952) (19)
- Modern contraceptive use in Indonesia: a challenge to conventional wisdom. (1981) (18)
- Correlates of values about ideal family size in the detroit Metropolitan area (1954) (18)
- Perceptions of contraceptive practice by others: effects on acceptance. (1969) (18)
- Population : the vital revolution (1965) (18)
- The Family and Population Control (1959) (17)
- Family Planning Programs in the Third World (1990) (17)
- Population and the World Bank: implications from eight case studies. (1992) (16)
- Intergenerational relations and reproductive behavior in Taiwan (1986) (16)
- Trends in fertility, family size preferences, and family planning practice: Taiwan, 1961-76. (1978) (15)
- Fertility expectations in the United States: 1961-1964. (1964) (15)
- Social correlates of fetal mortality. (1966) (15)
- Demographic aspects of lactation and postpartum amenorrhea (1970) (14)
- Applications of the behavioral sciences to family planning programs. (1967) (14)
- Correlates of IUD termination in a mass family planning program. The first Taiwan IUD follow-up survey. (1968) (13)
- Principles of Sociology (1952) (13)
- Recent fertility declines in Hong Kong: the role of the changing age structure. (1968) (13)
- Hong Kong's Fertility Decline 1961-68 (1970) (13)
- Taiwan: fertility trends in a crucial period of transition. (1969) (12)
- The Detroit Area Study: A Training and Research Laboratory in the Community (1953) (12)
- Principles of sociology : a text with readings (1952) (11)
- Fertility Decline in the Less Developed Countries. (1981) (11)
- Education and fertility in two Chinese provinces: 1967-1970 to 1979-1982. (1988) (10)
- Subregional Migration in the United States, 1935-1940, Vol. II. Differential Migration in the Corn and Cotton Belts. (1953) (10)
- TAIWAN: An Area Analysis of the Effect of Acceptances on Fertility (1968) (10)
- Family Planning Programs Today: Major Themes of the Geneva Conference (1965) (10)
- Family Planning Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Hong Kong 1997 (1999) (9)
- Trends in fertility and in the effects of education on fertility in Taiwan, 1961-74. (1977) (9)
- Unemployment and migration in the depression, 1930-1935. (1949) (9)
- Hong Kong: the continuing fertility decline 1967. (1969) (9)
- Incomplete Matching in Ex Post Facto Studies (1950) (9)
- Social and psychological factors affecting fertility. XII. The relationship of general planning to fertility planning and fertility rates. (1951) (8)
- On underestimating the rate of social change: a cautionary note. (1986) (8)
- Health Differentials for Rural-Urban Migration (1947) (8)
- Inferences about abortion from foetal mortality data. (1969) (8)
- Migration and Occupational Mobility in the Depression (1949) (7)
- Social and psychological factors affecting fertility; fertility planning and fertility rates by religious interest and denomination. (1950) (7)
- Fertility Expectations of the United States Population: A Time Series (1963) (7)
- Studies of fertility and family limitation in Taiwan. (1965) (6)
- Some roots of preference: Roles, activities and familial values (1979) (6)
- TAIWAN??S FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM (1968) (6)
- Preferences about sex of children. (1974) (6)
- Appraisal of vital statistics in Latin America. (1964) (5)
- Education and Occupation of Migrants in the Depression (1950) (5)
- The continuing fertility decline in Taiwan: 1965. (1967) (5)
- PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Man's Capacity to Reproduce: The Demography of a Unique Population. Joseph W. Eaton and Albert J. Mayer (1955) (4)
- Response of a traditional fishing community to Chinas family planning program: a case study. (1988) (4)
- The family planning program for all of Taiwan. (1969) (4)
- Differential fertility in Taiwan: 1972-1974. (1979) (4)
- Family planning and other population controls. (1968) (4)
- Sample surveys for family planning research in Taiwan. (1964) (4)
- Pre-Marital Pregnancy, Childspacing and Later Economic Achievement (1971) (3)
- Issues in the comparative analysis of World Fertility Survey data (1979) (3)
- : The Population Ahead . Roy G. Francis. ; Recent Trends in Fertility in Industrialized Countries. (Population Studies, No. 27.) . (1959) (3)
- The accelerating fertility decline in Taiwan. (1965) (3)
- A Study of the Growth of American Families (1956) (3)
- Nuptiality and fertility in Taiwan (1982) (3)
- Fertility after insertion of an IUCD in Taiwan's family-planning program. (1971) (3)
- Population waves and fertility fluctuations: social security implications. (1985) (3)
- The behavioral sciences and family planning programs: report on a conference (National Institutes of Health June 1967). (1967) (3)
- The Research Challenge to Social Scientists in the Developing Family Planning Programs: The Case of Taiwan (1967) (3)
- Response of a traditional fishing community to China's family planning program: A case study (1990) (2)
- China's Changing Population. Judith Banister (1989) (2)
- Supplementary Note: The Accelerating Fertility Decline in Taiwan (1965) (2)
- Local Area Variations in Reproductive Behavior in China, 1973–1982 (1992) (2)
- A comment on 'social and economic factors in Hong Kong's fertility decline' by Sui-Ying Wat and R. W. Hodge. (1973) (2)
- Social and psychological factors affecting fertility. XV. Fertility planning and fertility rates by adherence to traditions. (1952) (2)
- Factors in Fertility. (1967) (1)
- Appendix X-3. Who Has the IUD Reinserted After a First Termination? (1969) (1)
- Further reflections on changes in fertility expectations and preferences (1984) (1)
- The Planned Family and American Population Growth (1957) (1)
- The Sociology of Human Fertility: a Trend Report and Bibliography (1962) (1)
- The fertility transition in Hong Kong: 1961-1987. (1989) (1)
- Comparing reports of parents and adult children on the magnitude and importance of support provided to the elderly in Taiwan. (1995) (1)
- Distribution of Migrant Population in Chicago (1948) (1)
- The number of children wanted and the number born: ideal and reality. (1969) (1)
- Growth of American Families, 1955 (1973) (1)
- Policy options in the second stage of the demographic transition: the case of Taiwan. (1985) (1)
- The Taichung Experiment (1970) (1)
- Family limitation: the social and economic correlates. (1959) (0)
- Back Matter (1952) (0)
- Social and Political Implications of Population Increase (1970) (0)
- The methods of family limitation used by American couples. (1959) (0)
- Examples of community-level questionnaires from sample surveys about fertility (1974) (0)
- Perspectives on the Future of the Family Planning Program of Taiwan (1993) (0)
- Looking Ahead: Future School and College Enrollments in Michigan, 1955 to 1970 (1956) (0)
- Social Dynamics: Prinicples and Cases in Introductory Sociology.@@@Principles of Sociology: A Text with Readings. (1953) (0)
- The use of methods to regulate conception. (1959) (0)
- Predicting additional fertility from reproductive intentions: Taiwan 1967-74 (1978) (0)
- Issues in evaluating long-run effects of Taiwans family planning program. (1967) (0)
- Implications of fertility at zero-growth rate levels for Taiwan. (1970) (0)
- The organization, quality control, and accuracy of the 1982 population census of China. (1984) (0)
- What it all means: an overview. (1959) (0)
- Expected family size: principal findings and trends. (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Birth Control and Foreign Policy. The Alternatives to Family Planning. Nicholas J. Demerath (1977) (0)
- Sampling methods and sampling errors. (1959) (0)
- Hong Kongs fertility decline: 1961-1968. (1970) (0)
- Family planning and other population controls. (Letter) (1968) (0)
- Growth of American Families, 1955 and 1960 (1997) (0)
- Attitudes toward family limitation. (1959) (0)
- Procedures relating to forecasts of births and population. (1959) (0)
- Taiwans family planning program. (1968) (0)
- SOME ASPECTS OF POPULATION IN INDIA (2015) (0)
- The 1953 Meeting of the Population Association (1953) (0)
- Measuring acceptances in a family planning program: the decomposition of rates by eligibility criteria (1967) (0)
- Some observations on sampling tests (1958) (0)
- Methodological Considerations in Aligning Independent Surveys of Parental Support from Older and Younger Generations : With Illustrative Data from Taiwan (1996) (0)
- Research Methods in Social Relations (1952) (0)
- Sterility and fecundity of American families. (1959) (0)
- Correlates of IUD Termination in a Mass Family Planning Program: The First Taiwan IUD Follow-up Survey (1967) (0)
- Migration Within Ohio, 1935-1940. A Study in the Redistribution of Population. (1952) (0)
- The accuracy of reporting on the use of contraception. (1959) (0)
- Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico: A Study of the Lower Income Group. J. Mayone Stycos (1956) (0)
- SOME ASPECTS OF RESEARCH IN DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY (1950) (0)
- PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Culture and Human Fertility. Frank Lorimer (1955) (0)
- Family size in different social and economic groups. (1959) (0)
- The Fertility of American Women.Wilson H. Grabill , Clyde V. Kiser , Pascal K. WhelptonTrends in Birth Rates in the United States Since 1870.Bernard Okun (1959) (0)
- Background and nature of the study. (1959) (0)
- U.S. Birth Trends Analyzed (1971) (0)
- Problems and possibilities of conducting panel fertility studies (1970) (0)
- Factors related to Taiwans fertility decline: a review of the evidence (1980) (0)
- Freedman Observing Taiwan ’ s Demographic Transition : A Memoir Report (1998) (0)
- Recent migration to Chicago Ronald Freedman (1950) (0)
- Studies in the Population of Israel in Honour of Roberto Bachi (1987) (0)
- Factors affecting the number of children wanted and population policy. (1975) (0)
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