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Socioeconomic determinants of fertility behavior in developing nations : theory and initial results / Barbara Entwisle, Albert I. Hermalin, William M. Mason

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Entwisle, Barbara
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1982.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages).
Additional Creators
Hermalin, Albert I., Mason, William M., and National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population and Demography
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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 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, and 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
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ISBN
0309567211 (electronic bk.)
9780309567213 (electronic bk.)
Note
"Panel on Fertility Determinants, Committee on Population and Demography, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127).
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