To study the biological and behavioral process of the recent drastic fertility decline in China, the authors reviewed relating factors (proximate determinants) and applied the Bongaarts model to the population of China for the years 1971 and 1981, during which the fertility rate dropped most rapidly and substantial population control policies were performed. By application of the model, the de...

background: recently, the relevance of social interactions as determinants of behavioral intentions has been increasingly perceived, but there is a lack of knowledge on how and why it interacts with couples’ fertility intentions. objective: this qualitative study was conducted to explore the influence of social network on couples’ intention to have their first child in urban society of mashhad,...

Differences in Desired and Actual Fertility: An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Case Family size is the outcome of sequential decisions influenced both by preferences and by ongoing changes in the environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the number of children women prefer and their actual fertility has widened in Spain. The paper uses the 1985 and 1999 Spa...

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This final chapter will view the questions considered in the course of this work in the wider perspective of a reflection on the dynamics of fertility in India. An examination of regional studies reveals, in fact, the inadequacy of the theoretical frameworks regularly employed to account for fertility decline. This situation requires at the same time, a reconsideration of a number of theories, ...

Fertility is one of the responsible factors for the growth of human population. The demographers have given priority to understanding of the determinants of fertility through statistical techniques. Analytical models are suitable and appropriate tools and are widely used for better understanding of the phenomenon of the human fertility behavior. In other words, these models are useful in descri...

BACKGROUND Most of the recent literature on fertility stalls has concentrated on sub-Saharan Africa and has highlighted flaws in DHS data. No similar detailed research exists for presumed stalls occurring in countries outside that region. This is particularly surprising when considering that cases of fertility stalls have also been suggested in Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Syria a...

Multivariate analyses offer an explanation of the effects of demographic, socioeconomic, and biological factors on children ever born and child mortality in Pakistan in 1990-91. Data are obtained from the 1990-91 Pakistan Demographic and Fertility Survey. Household durables (10 items) are used as a proxy for economic status. Sex preference is measured as the percentage of females in the hous...

This article draws out some implications of son targeting fertility behavior and studies its determinants. We demonstrate that such behavior has two notable implications at the aggregate level: (a) girls have a larger number of siblings (sibling effect), and (b) girls are born at relatively earlier parities within families (birth-order effect). Empirically testing for these effects, we find tha...