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Dr Rebecca Kippen

Dr Rebecca Kippen



Rebecca Kippen


B.Bus (La Trobe), GradDip Demography (ANU), PhD Demography (ANU)

Fellow and Masters Co-ordinator

T: +61 2 6125 3759
E: rebecca.kippen@anu.edu.au
Room 2223 Coombs Building


 

Current Teaching

POPS2002 Population Analysis (undergraduate course)

DEMO8008 Principles of Population Analysis (postgraduate course)

Previous student feedback

Current Projects

Do Australian parents want both a son and a daughter?

Founders and survivors: Australian lifecourses in historical context

Papers and Publications

Historical Demography

R Kippen and S Walters 2007. ‘Is sibling rivalry fatal? The impact of co-resident siblings and mortality clustering on under-five mortality in nineteenth-century Sart, Belgium’, Social Science History Association Meeting, Chicago, 15–18 November.

JD Hacker and R Kippen 2007. 'A comparison of historical trends in marriage and fertility in the United States and Australia', Social Science History Association Meeting, 15-18 November, Chicago.

R Kippen 2007. 'Miasma, maladies and mortality: epidemic diseases in nineteenth-century Tasmania', Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Conference, 3-7 July, Canberra.

C Day, R Kippen and D Lucas 2006. 'Historical demography', Beginning Australian Population Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen 2006. 'Family formation and fertility decline in late nineteenth-century Tasmania', Conference of the Australian Population Association, 6-8 December, Adelaide.

R Kippen 2006. 'Tasmania and the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act', Australian Historical Association Conference, Canberra, 3-7 July.

R Kippen 2005. 'Counting maternal deaths in the nineteenth century: the case of Tasmania', Historical Methods, 38(1): 14-25.

R Kippen and P Gunn 2005. 'Convict bastards, common-law unions and shotgun weddings: premarital conceptions and exnuptial births in colonial Tasmania', Social Science History Association Conference, Portland, USA, 3-6 November.

R Kippen 2005. 'And the mortality frightful: infant and child mortality in the convict nurseries of Van Diemen's Land', IUSSP Vulnerable Populations Conference, Paris, France, 15-16 July.

R Kippen and D Lucas 2004. 'Sources for Australian historical demography', Working Papers in Demography, No. 93, Demography and Sociology Program, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen et al. 2004. 'IUSSP International Seminar on the New History of Kinship, Paris, 1-2 October', Report for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Paris.

R Kippen 2002. Death in Tasmania: Using Civil Death Registers to Measure Nineteenth-century Cause-specific Mortality, PhD thesis, Demography and Sociology Program, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen 2002. 'An indispensable duty of Government: civil registration in nineteenth-century Tasmania', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 8(1): 42-58.

Fertility

E Gray, R Kippen and A Evans 2007. ‘A boy for you and a girl for me: do men want sons and women want daughters?’, People and Place, 15(4): 1–8.

E Gray, A Evans and R Kippen 2007. ‘Generational differences in parity progression: the role of sex composition of children’, ADSRI Working Papers, No. 2, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen, A Evans and E Gray 2007. 'Parental preference for sons and daughters in a Western industrial setting: evidence and implications', Journal of Biosocial Science, 39(4): 583-597.
Previously published as Working Paper in Demography, No. 98, Demography and Sociology Program, The Australian National University, Canberra.

P Yu, R Kippen and B Chapman 2007. ‘Births, debts and mirages: the impact of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme and other factors on fertility expectations in Australia’, Journal of Population Research, 24(1): 73-90.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2007. 'Families in the 2006 Census: magic number may be a reality', The Australian, 28 June, 7.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2007. ‘The Intrinsic Total Fertility Rate: a new approach to tempo-adjusted fertility’, Population Association of America Meeting, 29–31 March, New York.

E Gray, A Evans and R Kippen 2007. ‘The differential value of sons and daughters in contemporary society’, Population Association of America Meeting, 29–31 March, New York.

R Kippen 2006. 'The rise of the older mother', People and Place, 14(3): 1-11.

R Kippen and P McDonald 2006. 'Projecting fertility using synthetic parity progression ratios with application to Australia', European Population Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 21-24 June.

P Corr and R Kippen 2006. 'The case for parity and birth-order statistics', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 48(2): 171-200.

R Kippen, E Gray and A Evans 2005. 'The impact on Australian fertility of wanting one of each', People and Place, 13(2): 12-21.

E Gray, A Evans and R Kippen 2005. 'Generational differences in parity progression in Australia: the role of sex composition of children', IUSSP International Population Conference, Tours, France, 18-23 July.

R Kippen 2004. 'Declines in first- and second-birth rates and their effect on levels of fertility', People and Place, 12(1): 28-37.

R Kippen 2003. 'Trends in age- and parity-specific fertility in Australia', Working Papers in Demography, No. 91, Demography and Sociology Program, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen 2001. 'IUSSP Meeting on Low Fertility, Tokyo, 21-23 March', Report for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Paris.

Population Futures

R Kippen and P McDonald 2007. ‘Population and settlement in Australia: the next 50 years’, in 30/50: The Technological Implications of an Australian Population of 30 Million by 2050, Report of a Study for the Scanlon Foundation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering,  Melbourne, 5–12.

P McDonald, R Kippen and J Temple 2006. 'Net transition probabilities: an approach to sub-national-level projections of households and housing demand based on census data', Population, Space and Place, 12(6): 479-495.

R Kippen and P McDonald 2004. 'Can increased immigration be a substitute for low fertility?', People and Place, 12(3): 18-27.

R Kippen 2002. 'The future extent of population ageing in Australia', in G Carmichael and D Dharmalingham (eds) Populations of New Zealand and Australia at the Millennium, Australian Population Association and Population Association of New Zealand, Canberra and Wellington, 151-158.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2002. 'The impact of long-term visitor migration on projections of Australia's population', International Migration, 40(4): 125-150.
Previously published as a Technical Report for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2002. 'Projecting future migration levels: should rates or numbers be used?', People and Place, 10(1): 82-83.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2002. 'Scenarios for the future population of Sydney', Australian Geographer, 33(3): 263-280.

N Jackson and R Kippen 2001. 'Whither Tasmania? A note on Tasmania's population problem', People and Place, 9(1): 27-37.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2001. 'The impact of immigration on the ageing of Australia's population', in M Siddique (ed.) International Migration into the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Reginald Appleyard, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 153-177.
Previously published in 1999 as a Technical Report for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2001. 'Labor supply prospects in 16 developed countries, 2000-2050', Population and Development Review, 27(1): 1-32.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2000. 'Population futures for Australia and New Zealand: an analysis of the options', New Zealand Population Review, 26(2): 45-65.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2000. 'Population projections for Australia', Business Council of Australia Papers, 2(2): 96-104.

R Kippen 1999. 'A note on ageing, immigration and the birthrate', People and Place, 7(2): 18-22.

P McDonald and R Kippen 1999. 'Ageing: the social and demographic dimensions', Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population, Ausinfo, Canberra, 47-70.

P McDonald and R Kippen 1999. 'Population futures for Australia: the policy alternatives', Research Paper No. 5, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Canberra.

R Kippen and P McDonald 1998. 'Achieving population targets for Australia: an analysis of the options', People and Place, 6(2): 11-23.

P McDonald and R Kippen 1998. 'Household trends and projections: Victoria 1986-2011', Report for the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, Melbourne.

Other

R Kippen 2008. ‘Review of The Research Process’, Journal of Population Research, forthcoming.

M Fourrier, R Sussman, R Kippen and G Childs 2008. ‘Demographic modeling of a predator–prey system and its implication for the Gombe population of Procolobus rufomitratus tephrosceles’, International Journal of Primatology, forthcoming.

R Kippen 2007. ‘Demography: Australia’, in F Malti-Douglas (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Macmillan Reference USA, Michigan, 2: 388–389.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2006. 'Reform of income tax in Australia: a long-term agenda', Australian Review of Public Affairs, 7(1): 19-39.
Previously published as Working Paper in Demography, No. 95, Demography and Sociology Program, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen 2005. 'Review of Methods and Materials of Demography', Journal of Population Research, 22(1): 97-98.

P McDonald and R Kippen 2004. 'Incentive fades at the point where tax kicks in', The Australian, 2 June, 13.

P McDonald, S-E Khoo and R Kippen 2003. 'Alternative net migration estimates for Australia: exploding the myth of a rapid increase in numbers', People and Place, 11(3): 23-36.
Previously published as Working Paper in Demography, No. 89, Demography and Sociology Program, The Australian National University, Canberra.

R Kippen and P McDonald 2000. 'Australia's population in 2000: the way we are and the ways we might have been', People and Place, 8(3): 10-17.