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Analyzing contemporary fertility / Robert Schoen, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis ; 1389-6784 volume 51.
- Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis, 1389-6784 ; volume 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demography.
- Statistics.
- Mathematics.
- Social sciences.
- Fertility.
- Childfree choice.
- Birth Rate.
- Population Dynamics.
- Reproductive Behavior.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Social Sciences.
- Medical Subjects:
- Birth Rate.
- Fertility.
- Population Dynamics.
- Reproductive Behavior.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Demography.
- Mathematics.
- Social Sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 306 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020].
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I: Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility
- Chapter 2. Social capital, gender competition, and the resurgence of childlessness
- Chapter 3. Uncertainty and narratives of the future: A theoretical framework for contemporary fertility
- Chapter 4. Social contagion effects in fertility: Theory and analytical strategy
- Chapter 5. The context of interracial childbearing in the United States
- Part II: Fertility Intentions
- Chapter 6. Do reproductive attitudes and knowledge explain race-ethnic-nativity differences in unintended fertility?
- Chapter 7. Regional fertility differences in India
- Part III: The Demography of Multipartner Fertility
- Chapter 8. Multi-partner fertility in Europe and the United States
- Chapter 9. Welfare regimes and fertility in second unions
- Chapter 10
- Years spent as mothers of young children: The role of completed fertility, birth spacing, and multiple partner fertility
- Chapter 11
- Wheres daddy? Challenges in the measurement of mens fertility
- Part IV: Issues of Measurement
- Chapter 12. Measuring the prevalence of multipartner fertility independent of fertility level. Chapter 13. Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: Illustration of U.S. cohorts of reproductive age in 2015.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Analyzing contemporary fertility.
- ISBN:
- 9783030485191 (electronic bk.)
- 3030485196 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90102000309
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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