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Socioeconomic determinants of fertility behavior in developing nations : theory and initial results / Barbara Entwisle, Albert I. Hermalin, William M. Mason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Entwisle, Barbara.
- Series:
- Report (National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population and Demography) ; no. 17.
- Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fertility, Human--Developing countries.
- Fertility, Human.
- Developing countries--Population.
- Developing countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- ""Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility Behavior in Developing Nations: Theory and Initial Results""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""CHAPTER 1""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""The Context of Fertility Behavior""; ""Fertility as a Process""; ""Causality""; ""1.2 OVERVIEW OF THE MODEL""; ""Intermediate Fertility Variables""; ""Child Mortality""; ""Sex Composition""; ""Socioeconomic Variables""; ""Interactions""; ""Variables Omitted From the Model""; ""1.3 THE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS""; ""Onset""; ""Early Outcomes""; ""Endogenous Socioeconomic Variables""; ""The Adjustment Variables""
- ""Later Child Mortality"" ""Contraceptive Use Patterns""; ""Later Fertility""; ""Transitional Contexts""; ""Traditional Contexts""; ""1.4 REDUCED AND SEMIREDUCED FORM IMPLICATIONS OF THE MODEL""; ""The Need for Reduction""; ""Connections With and Between Familiar Variables""; ""Implied and Actual Semireduced Form Equations""; ""Inferences About Coefficient Signs""; ""Child Mortality""; ""LCU""; ""CEB""; ""Child Mortality (CM)""; ""Contraceptive Use (LCU)""; ""Children Ever Born (CEB)""; ""Discussion""; ""1.5 CONCLUSION""; ""The Micro Equations""; ""Hypotheses About Coefficients""
- ""CHAPTER 2"" ""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 THE PROBLEM""; ""2.3 MACRO HYPOTHESES""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Slopes""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Intercepts""; ""2.4 DATA AND VARIABLES EMPLOYED""; ""2.5 ILLUSTRATION OF OPERATIONALIZATION""; ""Macro Comparison""; ""Micro Results for Peru and Korea""; ""Age at First Birth (AFB)""; ""Early Fertility (EF)""; ""Later Fertility (LF)""; ""2.6 MACRO ANALYSIS""; ""Within-Country Differences""; ""Between-Country Variability""; ""AFB and EF Slopes""; ""LF Slopes""; ""Intercepts""; ""2.7 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION""; ""NOTES""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""REFERENCES""
- Notes:
- "Panel on Fertility Determinants, Committee on Population and Demography, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
- Bibliography: p. 123-127.
- OCLC:
- 326760629
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