Publications of M. Giovanna Merli    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Journal Articles

  1. Li, Jing, Xiangsheng Chen, M. Giovanna Merli, Sharon Weir, Gail Henderson. "Systematic Differences in Risk Behaviours and Syphilis Prevalence across Types of Female Sex Workers: a Preliminary Study in Liuzhou, China.." Sexually Transmitted Diseases 39.3 (March, 2012).
  2. M. Giovanna Merli and S. Philip Morgan. ""Below Replacement Fertility Preferences in Shanghai.." Population (English and French Editions) (2011).
  3. Tu, Xiaowen, Chen Xiao, Fang Guanghong, Merli, M. Giovanna, Gu Weiming, Yang Yang, Gao Ersheng. "Factors associated with sexually transmitted disease infection among female sex workers in Shanghai, China." Zhongguo Gonggong Weisheng Zazhi (Chinese Journal of Public Health) (2010).
  4. Merli, M. Giovanna and Sara Hertog. "Masculine sex ratios, population age structure and the potential spread of HIV in China." Demographic Research 22.3 (2010): 63-94.
  5. Merli, M. Giovanna. "The past, present and future of China’s birth planning policy." Il Politico.Rivista Italiana di Scienze Politiche (Italian Journal of Political Sciences) LXXI.3 (2006): 83-108.
  6. Merli, M. Giovanna, Sara Hertog, Bo Wang & Jing Li. "Modeling the spread of HIV/AIDS in China: The role of sexual transmission." Population Studies 60.1 (2006): 1-22.
  7. Merli, M. Giovanna, Zhenchao Qian & Herbert L. Smith. "Adaptation of a Political Bureaucracy to Economic and Institutional Change under Socialism: The Chinese State Family Planning System." Politics and Society 32.2 (2004): 231-256.
  8. Merli, M. Giovanna & Herbert L. Smith. "Has the Chinese Birth Planning Program Been Successful in Changing Fertility Preferences? Evidence from Linked Records in Three Data Sources in Four Counties of Northern China." Demography 39.3 (2002): 557-572.
  9. Merli, M. Giovanna & Adrian Raftery. "Are Births Underreported in Rural China? Manipulation of Statistical Records in Response to China’s Population Policies." Demography 37.1 (2000): 109-126.
  10. Merli, M. Giovanna. "Socioeconomic Background and War Mortality during Vietnam’s Wars." Demography 37.1 (2000): 1-15.
  11. Merli, M. Giovanna. "Mortality in Vietnam, 1979-1989." Demography 35.3 (1998): 345-360.
  12. Merli, M. Giovanna. "Underreporting of Births and Infant Deaths in Rural China. Evidence from One County of Northern China." The China Quarterly 155 (1998): 637-655.
  13. Smith, Herbert L., Tu Ping, M. Giovanna Merli, & Mark Hereward. "Implementation of a Demographic and Contraceptive Surveillance System in Four Counties in North China." Population Research and Policy Review 16 (1997): 289-314.

Chapters in Books

  1. Merli, M. Giovanna, William Whipple Neely, Feng Tian, Gao Ersheng, Tu Xiaowen, Gu Weimin, Yang Yang. "Sampling Female Sex Workers in Shanghai Using Respondent Driven Sampling." Rational Judgement. Public Health and Social Development. Ed. by Xia Guomei and Yang Xiushi 2010: 293-308.
  2. Merli, M. Giovanna, Jack DeWaard, Feng Tian and Sara Hertog. "Migration and Gender in China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic." Gender Policy and HIV in China: Catalyzing Policy Change. Ed. Joseph Tucker Dudley L. Poston Qiang Ren, Baochang Gu Xiaoying Zheng Stephanie Wang, and Chris Russell. New York, NY: Springer Publishers. Springer Publishers, 2009
  3. Merli, M. Giovanna & Alberto Palloni. "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Kin Relations, Living Arrangements and the Elderly in South Africa." Aging in Africa. Ed. B. Cohen & J. Menken Washington, DC: National Academy of Science Press, 2006
  4. Wang Qian, Mo Li (M. Giovanna Merli), Wu Jie, and Bao Qian.. "Factors influencing the choice of contraceptive methods."  1996 "Yingxiang biyun fangfa xuanze de youguan yinsu" (Factors influencing the choice of contraceptive methods), in 1992 nian Zhongguo shengyulu chouyang diaocha lunwen ji(Collection of Works on the 1992 China Fertility Rate Sample Survey), ed. Jiang Zhenghua, Zhang Erli, Chen Shengli, and Chen Jianli, pp. 255-263.

Other Working Papers

  1. M.Giovanna Merli & Alberto Palloni. "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Kin Relations, Living Arrangements and the Elderly in South Africa." University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology Working Papers 2004-13  (2004).
  2. M.Giovanna Merli, Sara Hertog, Bo Wang & Jing Li. "Modeling the spread of HIV/AIDS in China." University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology Working Papers 2004-14  (2004).
  3. Merli, M. Giovanna & Herbert L. Smith. "Has the Chinese Birth Planning Program Been Successful in Changing Fertility Preferences? Evidence from Linked Records in Three Data Sources in Four Counties of Northern China." University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology Working Papers 2004-14  (2000).
  4. Merli, M. Giovanna. "Estimation of International Migration for Vietnam, 1979-1989." Center For Studies in Demography and Ecology University of Washington Working Paper Series No. 97-04  (1997).

Book Reviews

  1. M. Merli, Nancy E. Riley, and James McCarthy. Demography in the Age of the Postmodern.  American Journal of SociologyCambridge University Press (2005). 144.6 (2009).
  2. Merli, M. Giovanna. "Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics, by Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).  Contemporary Sociology 36.2 (2007).

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