Since the early 1960s, South Korea has been going through a rapid fertilitydecline, along with its socioeconomic development and effective family planningprograms. After achieving a desired replacement level of fertility in 1984, the totalfertility rate (TFR) of Korea has gradually declined to...

Rates of black-white intermarriage in the United States have increased over the last sixty years, yet they remain at levels below other types of interracial/interethnic unions. Prior research has centered largely on individual-level factors associated with the formation of such unions,...

This thesis utilizes a series of seven logistic regression models to examine thepredictors of the likelihood of adoption among U.S. women based on the NationalSurvey of Family Growth, Cycle 6. The individual characteristics that have been foundmost influential in determining adoption behavior in...

In order to maintain itself into the future, the People’s Republic of China undertook in the 1970s a legendary demographic endeavor dealing with the artificial constraint of population growth. The “later, longer, fewer” policy and the more rigid one-child policy were efforts to expedite...

John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically low fertility rates across the globe have raised questions regarding...