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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812217003321

Titolo

From death to birth : mortality decline and reproductive change / / Mark R. Montgomery and Barney Cohen, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academy Press, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

0-309-18491-6

0-585-03757-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 426 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

304.63

Soggetti

Mortality

Fertility, Human

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Effect of a child's death on birth spacing : a cross-national analysis / Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, Paul W. Stupp, and Zuguo Mei -- The impact of infant and child mortality risk on fertility / Kenneth I. Wolpin -- Learning and lags in mortality perceptions / Mark R. Montgomery -- The impact of AIDS mortality on individual fertility : evidence from Tanzania / Martha Ainsworth, Deon Filmer, and Innocent Semali -- Infant mortality and fertility transition : macro evidence from Europe and new findings from Prussia / Patrick R. Galloway, Ronald D. Lee, and Eugene A. Hammel --

The relationship between infant and child mortality and fertility : some historical and contemporary evidence for the United States / Michael R. Haines -- Fertility response to infant and child mortality in Africa with special reference to Cameroon / Barthélémy Kuate Defo -- The relationship between infant and child mortality and subsequent fertility in Indonesia : 1971-1991 / Elizabeth Frankenberg -- Micro and macro effects of child mortality on fertility : the case of India / P.N. Mari Bhat -- Child mortality and the fertility transition : aggregated and multilevel evidence from Costa Rica / Luis Rosero-Bixby.