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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
P Gunn and R Kippen 2008. Household and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania, dataset of 195 thousand births, 93 thousand deaths and 51 thousand marriages registered in Tasmania, 1838–1899, Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University, Canberra.
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.
Marriage and Fertility
A Evans, C Barbarto, E Bettini, E Gray and R Kippen 2009. ‘Taking stock: parents’ reasons for and against having a third child’, Community, Work and Family, forthcoming.
R Kippen, B Chapman and P Yu 2009. ‘What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability’, HILDA Survey Research Conference, Melbourne, 16–17 July.
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, 25(1): 93–94.
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, 29(2): 497–508.
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.
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