The Economics of Fertility of Control
Author | : Kathleen Klein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Kathleen Klein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Crops and climate |
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Author | : Paul George Demeny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Birth control |
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Author | : Hans-Peter Kohler |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2001-09-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191529605 |
Considerable controversy exists among demographers, economists, and sociologists over the causes of fertility change in developing and developed countries. The neoclassical economic approach to fertility is embraced by its supporters because it facilitates the application of sophisticated consumer and household production theory to one of the most private and intimate questions: a couple's reproductive behavior. Despite the theoretical appeal of the economic approach, it has been eschewed by many critics because of its lack of social and institutional context, its neglect of cultural factors, and its requirement of 'rationality'. The integration of social interaction with economic fertility models in this book emerges as a powerful tool to overcome many of these criticisms. First, the analysis provides a formal integration of economic, sociological, and other approaches to fertility, and shows that there is a useful and promising agenda at the intersection of these schools. The second and more important goal is to sharpen the analytic lens with which theorists from different schools investigate fertility. For economists the work shows the advantages of moving beyond individual decision-making and embedding fertility decisions in a 'local environment' with interpersonal information flows, 'atmospheric' or social externalities, norms, and customs. For sociologists the work shows that theorizing about interactions within social networks can be more sophisticated. The implications of social networks depend substantially on the specific contexts and stages of the demographic transition, and these differences can be used to empirically distinguish between social learning and social influence. Thirdly, the findings have important implications for population policy. The analyses in this book indicate when family planning is likely to diffuse and lead to rapid adoption of birth control, and they derive conditions where Pareto-improving policy measures are likely to exist.
Author | : Matthew Lockwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
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Author | : Ansley J. Coale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : |
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Author | : Richard A. Easterlin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1985-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780226180298 |
For most of human history a "natural fertility" regime has prevailed throughout the world: there has been almost no conscious limitation of family size within marriage, and women have spent their reproductive lives tied to the "wheel of childbearing." Only recently in developed countries has fertility been brought under conscious control by individual couples and childbearing fallen to an average of two births per woman. The explanation of this "fertility revolution" is the main concern of this book. Richard A. Easterlin and Eileen M. Crimmins present and test a fertility theory that has gained increasing attention over the last decade, a "supply-demand theory" that integrates economic and sociological approaches to fertility determination. The results of the tests, which draw on data from four developing countries—Colombia, India, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan—are highly consistent, though a number of the conclusions are likely to arouse controversy. For example, couples' motivation for fertility control appears to be the prime mover in the fertility revolution, rather than access to family planning services or unfavorable attitudes toward such services. The interdisciplinary approach and nontechnical exposition of this study will attract a wide readership among economists, sociologists, demographers, anthropologists, statisticians, biologists, and others.
Author | : Robert Black |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2016-04-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1464803684 |
The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.
Author | : Shuiliang Tung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Birth control |
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Author | : Malcolm Potts |
Publisher | : MacDonald & Evans |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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