From death to birth : mortality decline and reproductive change / Mark R. Montgomery and Barney Cohen, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Barney, 1959- editor.

Montgomery, Mark, 1953- editor.

Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mortality.

Fertility, Human.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 426 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : National Academy Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The last 35 years or so have witnessed a dramatic shift in the demography of many developing countries. Before 1960, there were substantial improvements in life expectancy, but fertility declines were very rare. Few people used modern contraceptives, and couples had large families. Since 1960, however, fertility rates have fallen in virtually every major geographic region of the world, for almost all political, social, and economic groups. What factors are responsible for the sharp decline in fertility? What role do child survival programs or family programs play in fertility declines? Casual observation suggests that a decline in infant and child mortality is the most important cause, but there is surprisingly little hard evidence for this conclusion. The papers in this volume explore the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of the fertility-mortality relationship. It includes several detailed case studies based on contemporary data from developing countries and on historical data from Europe and the United States.

Contents:

Effect of a child's death on birth spacing : a cross-national analysis / Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, Paul W. Stupp, and Zuguo Mei

The impact of infant and child mortality risk on fertility / Kenneth I. Wolpin

Learning and lags in mortality perceptions / Mark R. Montgomery

The impact of AIDS mortality on individual fertility : evidence from Tanzania / Martha Ainsworth, Deon Filmer, and Innocent Semali

Infant mortality and fertility transition : macro evidence from Europe and new findings from Prussia / Patrick R. Galloway, Ronald D. Lee, and Eugene A. Hammel

The relationship between infant and child mortality and fertility : some historical and contemporary evidence for the United States / Michael R. Haines

Fertility response to infant and child mortality in Africa with special reference to Cameroon / Barthélémy Kuate Defo

The relationship between infant and child mortality and subsequent fertility in Indonesia : 1971-1991 / Elizabeth Frankenberg

Micro and macro effects of child mortality on fertility : the case of India / P.N. Mari Bhat

Child mortality and the fertility transition : aggregated and multilevel evidence from Costa Rica / Luis Rosero-Bixby.

Notes:

"Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780309184915

0309184916

9780585037578

0585037574

OCLC:

1122463830