| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages) |
| Series |
Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 17 |
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Report (National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population and Demography) ; no. 17.
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| 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 |
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Later Child MortalityContraceptive 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 |
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CHAPTER 22.1 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 |
| Notes |
"Panel on Fertility Determinants, Committee on Population and Demography, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fertility, Human -- Developing countries
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Sex (Psychology)
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Mathematical models.
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Contraception Behavior
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Models, Theoretical
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Reproduction
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Socioeconomic Factors
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mathematical models.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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Mathematical models
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Fertility, Human
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Sex (Psychology)
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hermalin, Albert I.
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Mason, William M.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population and Demography.
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| ISBN |
0309567211 |
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9780309567213 |
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