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Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries / Richard A. Easterlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- NBER-Universities-National Bureau Confer
- National Bureau of Economic Research Universities-National Bureau Conference Series ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Developing countries--Population--Congresses.
- Developing countries--Population.
- Population--Economic aspects--Congresses.
- Population--Economic aspects.
- Population.
- Local Subjects:
- Developing countries--Population--Congresses.
- Developing countries--Population.
- Population--Economic aspects--Congresses.
- Population--Economic aspects.
- Population.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (592 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark in the growing field of economic demography."-Dudley Kirk, Journal of Developing Areas
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Introduction
- 1. Child Costs and Economic Development
- 2. Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility
- 3. Child Mortality and Fertility: Issues in the Demographic Transition of a Migrant Population
- 4. An Economic Interpretation of the Decline in Fertility in a Rapidly Developing Country: Consequences of Development and Family Planning
- 5. Causes and Consequences of Mortality Declines in Less Developed Countries during the Twentieth Century
- 6. Internal Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey
- 7. Interactions of Economic and Demographic Household Behavior
- 8. Recent Population Trends in Less Developed Countries and Implications for Internal Income Inequality
- 9. A Historical Perspective on Economic Aspects of the Population Explosion: The Case of Preindustrial England
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786611125516
- 9781281125514
- 1281125512
- 9780226180250
- 0226180255
- OCLC:
- 437248177
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