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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777447403321
• Autore: Entwisle Barbara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1982
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages)
• Collana: Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 17
• Altri autori (Persone): HermalinAlbert I; MasonWilliam M
• Disciplina: 304.632091724
• Soggetti: Fertility, Human - Developing countries; Developing countries Population
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Panel on Fertility Determinants, Committee on Population and Demography, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 123-127.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""