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According to Wikipedia, Susan Cotts Watkins is an American demographer. She has been a professor at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is now professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has focused on the impact of social networks on cultural change in the demography of the U.S., Western Europe, and Africa.

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Social interactions and contemporary fertility transitions. (1996) (983)
The Decline of Fertility in Europe (1986) (974)
Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples (1999) (386)
Ties of dependence: AIDS and transactional sex in rural Malawi. (2006) (300)
The buzz outside the clinics: conversations and contraception in Nyanza Province, Kenya. (1997) (279)
“Teach a Man to Fish”: The Sustainability Doctrine and Its Social Consequences (2009) (264)
Outsourcing Social Transformation: Development NGOs as Organizations (2012) (262)
The density of social networks and fertility decisions: evidence from south nyanza district, kenya (2001) (262)
Cultural and Economic Approaches to Fertility : A Proper Marriage or a Mesalliance? (1993) (244)
Social networks and changes in contraceptive use over time: Evidence from a longitudinal study in rural Kenya (2002) (220)
Navigating the AIDS Epidemic in Rural Malawi (2004) (215)
Perceptions of risk and strategies for prevention: responses to HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi. (2005) (204)
Famines in historical perspective. (1985) (190)
Attrition in longitudinal household survey data (2000) (186)
Social networks and HIV/AIDS risk perceptions (2007) (176)
Demographic foundations of family change. (1987) (173)
From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960 (1990) (164)
Population and Nutrition: An Essay on European Demographic History (1991) (153)
From local to national communities: the transformation of demographic regimes in Western Europe 1870-1960. (1990) (142)
The fertility transition: Europe and the Third World compared (1987) (141)
Feminists and neo-Malthusians: Past and present alliances (1997) (135)
Giving care to people with symptoms of AIDS in rural sub-Saharan Africa (2004) (132)
The nutrition fertility link: an evaluation of the evidence. (1981) (127)
Local and foreign models of reproduction in Nyanza Province, Kenya. (2000) (126)
Polygyny and the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a case of benign concurrency (2010) (124)
Sex in Geneva, sex in Lilongwe, and sex in Balaka. (2007) (113)
Men's heightened risk of AIDS-related death: the legacy of gendered HIV testing and treatment strategies. (2015) (110)
Disobedient distributors: street-level bureaucrats and would-be patrons in community-based family planning programs in rural Kenya. (2001) (105)
AIDS and Older Persons: An International Perspective (2003) (100)
The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06: Data collection, data quality, and analysis of attrition. (2009) (100)
Cohort Profile: The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH). (2015) (95)
Husband-wife survey responses in Malawi. (2001) (94)
Hearsay Ethnography: Conversational Journals as a Method for Studying Culture in Action. (2009) (91)
Sexual and marital trajectories and HIV infection among ever-married women in rural Malawi (2009) (82)
WOMEN'S GOSSIP AND SOCIAL CHANGE (1995) (81)
Accuracy, stability and reciprocity in informal conversational networks in rural Kenya (2000) (81)
If all we knew about women was what we read in Demography, what would we know? (1993) (78)
Acceptance of repeat population-based voluntary counselling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi (2008) (77)
Working Misunderstandings: Donors, Brokers, and Villagers in Africa's AIDS Industry (2013) (74)
The key lesson of family planning programmes for HIV/AIDS control (2006) (73)
The evolution of population policies in Kenya and Malawi (2005) (67)
After Ellis Island: Newcomers and Natives in the 1910 Census (1995) (65)
Assessing the potential of condom use to prevent the spread of HIV: a microsimulation study. (2004) (50)
Reactions of developing-country elites to international population policy. (2002) (50)
Orderly theories disorderly women. (1997) (48)
Introduction to: Social Interactions and HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa (2003) (48)
Sexual behaviour and networking: anthropological and socio-cultural studies on the transmission of HIV. (1993) (45)
Nutrition mortality and population size: Malthus court of last resort. (1983) (43)
Empirical assessments of social networks, fertility and family planning programs: nonlinearities and their implications. (2000) (43)
Chapter 3. Social-Group Forerunners of Fertility Control in Europe (2017) (43)
Asking God about the date you will die: HIV testing as a zone of uncertainty in rural Malawi. (2009) (42)
Marriage and Remarriage in Populations of the Past. (1983) (42)
Spinsters (1984) (37)
Future Shock: Rewriting the Apocalypse in Contemporary Women's Fiction (2012) (35)
Regional patterns of nuptiality in Europe, 1870-1960. (1981) (35)
Social Networks, Hiv/Aids and Risk Perceptions (2003) (35)
Personal Names and Cultural Change: A Study of the Naming Patterns of Italians and Jews in the United States in 1910 (1994) (35)
Developmental Idealism and Cultural Models of the Family in Malawi (2014) (34)
Chapter 4. Infant Mortality and the European Demographic Transition (2017) (34)
A Fraught Embrace (2018) (30)
A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa (2017) (29)
Men with Money and the “Vulnerable Women” Client Category in an AIDS Epidemic (2016) (27)
Chapter 2. A Summary of the Changing Distribution of Overall Fertility, Marital Fertility, and the Proportion Married in the Provinces of Europe (2017) (25)
AIDS Exceptionalism: Another Constituency Heard From (2013) (24)
Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (2000) (23)
Chapter 1. The Decline of Fertility in Europe since the Eighteenth Century As a Chapter in Demographic History (2017) (22)
Social Networks and Social Science History (1995) (21)
How do we know we need to control for selectivity (2003) (21)
Diffusion and debate: controversy about reproductive change in Nyanza province Kenya. (1995) (20)
Chapter 5. Urban-Rural Differences in Fertility in Europe during the Demographic Transition (2017) (20)
On Measuring Transitions And Turning Points (1980) (20)
'Teach a Man to Fish': The Doctrine of Sustainability and Its Effects on Three Strata of Malawian Society. (2009) (19)
Mixed-Method Quasi-Experimental Study of Outcomes of a Large-Scale Multilevel Economic and Food Security Intervention on HIV Vulnerability in Rural Malawi (2016) (19)
Hearsay Ethnography: A Method for Learning about Responses to Health Interventions (2011) (16)
How can we measure the causal effects of social networks using observational data? Evidence from the diffusion of family planning and AIDS worries in South Nyanza District, Kenya (2001) (16)
Childhood health-care practices among Italians and Jews in the United States, 1910-1940* (1994) (14)
Socio-economic differences in fertility control. Is there an early warning system at the village level? (1990) (14)
Conversation and contraception in Nyanza province Kenya. (1996) (14)
The Female Life Cycle in a Belgian Commune: La Hulpe, 1847-1866 (1980) (13)
NARRATIVES OF DEATH IN RURAL MALAWI IN THE TIME OF AIDS (2015) (13)
Immigration and Family Separation in the U.S. at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1993) (12)
Popular Moralities and Institutional Rationalities in Malawi's Struggle Against AIDS. (2014) (12)
From Mercantilists to Neo-Malthusianism: International Population Movement and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya (1998) (12)
A WEIGHTLESS HEGEMONY (2004) (11)
Sex Change and Media Change: From Woolf's to Potter's 'Orlando' (1998) (11)
Methodological issues in the use of population registers for fertility analysis. (1983) (11)
The changing role of health-oriented international organizations and nongovernmental organizations. (2016) (11)
Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (2006) (11)
Social Networks, Family Planning and Worrying About Aids: What are the Network Effects If Network Partners are Not Determined Randomly? (2002) (10)
A Microsimulation Study of the Effects of Divorce and Remarriage on Lifetime Risks of HIV / AIDS in Rural Malawi (2003) (10)
remembering home: nation and identity in the recent writing of Doris Lessing (2007) (10)
Implications for behavioural change in rural Malawi of popular understandings of the epidemiology of AIDS (2008) (10)
“Grande Dame” or “New Woman”: Doris Lessing and the Palimpsest (2006) (9)
The structure of social networks and fertility decisions: evidence from S. Nyanza District, Kenya (1999) (9)
Methods and protocol of a mixed method quasi-experiment to evaluate the effects of a structural economic and food security intervention on HIV vulnerability in rural Malawi: The SAGE4Health Study (2014) (9)
Chapter 8. Regional Patterns of Nuptiality in Western Europe, 1870–1960 (2017) (8)
Lessons from Empirical Network Analyses on Matters of Life and Death in East Africa (2007) (8)
Practices of Deliberation in Rural Malawi (2015) (8)
Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (2020) (7)
Reactions to Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Rural Malawi (2008) (7)
GENERATING AMERICANS: ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN FERTILITY (2016) (7)
“Summoning Your Youth at Will”: Memory, Time, and Aging in the Work of Penelope Lively, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing (2013) (7)
An Analysis of the Political Economy of Schooling in Rural Malawi: Interactions among Parents, Teachers, Students, Chiefs and Primary Education Advisors (2019) (6)
Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (2011) (6)
The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research (2013) (6)
Love in the Time of HIV: Theory and Evidence on Social Stigma and Health Seeking Behavior (2015) (6)
Making meaning in the time of AIDS: longitudinal narratives from the Malawi Journals Project (2015) (6)
Narratives of Death in the Time of AIDS in Rural Malawi (2013) (6)
Epistemology and Epidemiology: Diagnosing AIDS in rural Malawi (2007) (6)
Feminists and neo-Malthusians: Past and present (1997) (5)
Graphics in Demography (1985) (5)
Developmental Idealism, the International Population Movement, and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya* (2019) (5)
Sex Without Birth or Death: A Comparison of Two International Humanitarian Movements (2005) (5)
Pivoting to Learning: A Puzzle with Many Pieces (2016) (4)
The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange (2009) (4)
Keeping the family in family planning (2014) (4)
Repentance and hope among Christians and Muslims in rural Malawi (2004) (3)
On the Role of Crises in Historical Perspective: Reply (1988) (3)
Developmental Idealism and Family Life in Malawi (2011) (3)
Conversations Into Texts: A Method for Studying Public Culture (2006) (3)
Chapter 7. Regional and Cultural Factors in the Decline of Marital Fertility in Europe (2017) (3)
Jane Austen's Town and Country Style (1990) (3)
Prioritizing strategies to reduce AIDS-related mortality for men in sub-Saharan Africa: authors' reply. (2016) (3)
Writing in a minor key: Doris Lessing’s late-twentieth-century fiction (2010) (3)
Current fertility and public health policy. (1976) (3)
'Circle No Bicycle': Fieldwork in Nyanza Province, Kenya, 1994-1995 (1995) (3)
Curriculum Helps Families Discuss and Plan for Future of Their Woodland or Farm. (2012) (3)
‘Teach a Man to Fish’: The Doctrine of Sustainability and Its Social Consequences (2008) (2)
Accurate information as a tool to decrease HIV test refusals in research studies (2015) (2)
The history of British women's writing, 1945-1975 (2017) (2)
The Myth of the Holy Cow Verso (Book) (2002) (2)
jennifer a. wagner-lawlor. Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions. (2014) (2)
’The aristocracy of intellect’: Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (2007) (2)
Inclusive development in the greater Mekong subregion : an assessment (2014) (2)
Reduced to curtain twitchers? Age, ageism and the careers of four women actors (2021) (2)
Fertility Transition: Cultural Explanations (2001) (2)
Development Aid: What Can Go Wrong and Why? (2017) (2)
Hearsay Ethnography: Capturing Culture in Action (2006) (1)
Introduction (2006) (1)
Chapter 10. Lessons from the Past: Policy Implications of Historical Fertility Studies (2017) (1)
Local Reactions to (In-Home) Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) for HIV in Rural Malawi (2007) (1)
The politics of loss: melancholy cosmopolitanism (2010) (1)
Infant and childhood mortality and health care among Italians and Jews in the United States 1910-1940. (1993) (1)
Introduction: Rewriting and Transforming Traditions (2020) (1)
Writing in a minor key (2013) (1)
"Women and wives mustn't go near it": academia, language and gender in the novels of Alison Lurie (2004) (1)
CHAPTER 6. Back to Basics: Gender, Social Norms, and the AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (1)
Malawi Journals Project (2015) (1)
Fertility differentials by age and parity European immigrant groups in the U.S. in 1905-09. (1990) (1)
Benign concurrency in context and practice: a response to Epstein and Stanton. (2010) (1)
The Ethics of Transplants – Why Careless Thought Costs LivesThe Ethics of Transplants – Why Careless Thought Costs Lives (2012) (0)
A Politics of Loss? (2013) (0)
Social Networks and Contraception Use in Kenya (1995) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Languages, Markets, States, and Nations (1990) (0)
Themes that Make Everyone Happy (2018) (0)
2. Fevered Imaginations (2017) (0)
9. A Practice That Makes Everyone Happy: Training (2017) (0)
A summary of Special Collection 1 (2003) (0)
Lumbering Behemoths and Fluttering Butterflies (2018) (0)
Chapter 11. Conclusions (2017) (0)
Introduction: the Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (2007) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
A Practice That Makes Everyone Happy (2018) (0)
10. Creating Success (2017) (0)
6. Brokers’ Careers: Merit, Miracles, and Malice (2017) (0)
Themes That Make Everyone Anxious (2018) (0)
7. Themes That Make Everyone Happy: Fighting Stigma and Helping Orphans (2017) (0)
20. Making Babies: Eighteenth-Century Attitudes towards Conception, Reproduction, and Childbirth (2015) (0)
The Impact of Teenage Pregnancy on the Family, or Vice Versa? (1983) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Western Europe around 1870 (1990) (0)
CHAPTER 7. From Peasants into Frenchwomen (1990) (0)
Elizabeth I and Her World (2007) (0)
Peter Campbell, 1937-2011 (2012) (0)
11. Conclusions: Doing Good Better (2017) (0)
4. Cultural Production: A Riot of Color (2017) (0)
Epistemology and epidemiology: local interpretations of the epidemiology of the AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi. (2007) (0)
8. Themes That Make Everyone Anxious: Vulnerable Women and Harmful Cultural Practices (2017) (0)
Book reviews. (1983) (0)
List of Maps (2017) (0)
Memorial: Robert Melton Watkins (1948-2000) (2000) (0)
An allegory from Atlantis (1998) (0)
Rariew as a 'Women's Problem': Social, Cultural, and Economic Factors Affecting Recognition and Treatment of a Reproductive Illness in Rural Kenya (1998) (0)
Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon (2013) (0)
Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.John E. Knodel (1989) (0)
Marx and me: on writing a historical novel (1998) (0)
MODELS OF REPRODUCTION IN NYANZA PROVINCE , KENYA The local area is South (2007) (0)
Surviving the Epidemic : Families and Well-Being , Malawi 1998 – 2013 (2015) (0)
3. Lumbering Behemoths and Fluttering Butterflies: Altruists in the Global AIDS Enterprise (2017) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1989) (0)
Incense owns a deity nigh (1999) (0)
CHAPTER 4. The Fertility Transition (1990) (0)
The Demographic History of the Philadelphia Region 1600-1860 (1991) (0)
Family Forms in Historic Europe (1985) (0)
Reproductive Rituals.Angus McLaren (1987) (0)
Living Arrangements in the 1980s (2017) (0)
1. Introduction: Altruism from Afar (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Limits to Demographic Diversity (1990) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Demographic Nationalism (1990) (0)
Hearsay Ethnography: Capturing Culture in Action - eScholarship (2006) (0)
Getting to know Brokers (2018) (0)
Chapter 9. Demographic Transitions in German Villages (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 8. Conclusions (1990) (0)
Literature and the Word (2020) (0)
Hat Honour, Self-Identity and Commitment in Early Quakerism (2014) (0)
Time, Narrative and History (2020) (0)
Epiphany and feminine subjectivity in the novels of Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence and Doris Lessing (1992) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of Enserch Exploration Company Proposed Well #5 Lohmann, Located In Major County, Oklahoma (1981) (0)
Going ‘home’: exile and nostalgia in the writing of Doris Lessing (2010) (0)
Science, Nature and Matter (2020) (0)
The Posthuman Body (2020) (0)
Doris Lessing (1919-2013) (2013) (0)
The Maternal Imaginary (2020) (0)
Conclusion: The Post-secular (2020) (0)
Reimagining the Maternal in Jenny Diski’s and Doris Lessing’s Apocalyptic Imaginative Memoirs (2019) (0)
Ageing as Adaptation. (2023) (0)
Protecting science from the dark side: Commercial funding of research (2019) (0)
Developmental Idealism and Cultural Models of the Family in Malawi (2014) (0)
The Ethics of Transplants - Why Careless Thought Costs Lives Janet Radcliff e Richards The Ethics of Transplants - Why Careless Thought Costs Lives Oxford University Press £278pp £16.99 978 0 1995 7555 8 9780199575558 [Formula: see text]. (2012) (0)
Second World Life Writing: Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin (2016) (0)
Un New Deal pour l'Europe by Michel Aglietta and Thomas Brand; Gekaufte Zeit:...... (2013) (0)

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