SELECTED PUBLICATIONS.

This article presents selected publications related to demography. The book "The Economic Approach to Human Behavior" by Gary S. Becker is a collection of essays by the leading theorist of the microeconomics of fertility. It elaborates the simple proposition that "the economic approach is a comprehensive one that is applicable to all human behavior." Most of the essays have appeared over the past two decades in the "Journal of Political Economy" and other economics journals. The book "Adolescent Fertility: The Proceedings of an International Conference" edited by Donald J. Bogue presents the conference papers covering a variety of topics, cultures, and countries, grouped under the following headings: magnitude of the problem of adolescent fertility; implications of the problem; strategies for action; sex education; experimental programs; problem areas; policy. Despite the diversity of perspective, from an anecdotal to a national statistical account, the papers and discussion both emphasize that adolescent childbearing, in or out of wedlock, is detrimental to physical health and social and economic well-being.