| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages). |
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text file |
| 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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| Note |
"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). |
| 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 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"" |
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""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fertility, Human -- Developing countries.
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Fertility, Human. |
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Developing countries. |
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sex (Psychology) |
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Contraception Behavior. |
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Models, Theoretical. |
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Reproduction. |
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Socioeconomic Factors. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added 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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Entwisle, Barbara. Socioeconomic determinants of fertility behavior in developing nations. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1982 (OCoLC)10990108 |
| ISBN |
0309567211 (electronic book) |
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9780309567213 (electronic book) |
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