the recent decline in fertility rates to extremely low levels in these countries are also explored. These demographic …

gender equality, family planning, low fertility, freedom of spouse choice, older ages at marriage, and the recognition of … sexual relations and childbearing outside marriage. I also discuss how developmental idealism produces resistance against it …

replacement level of fertility two decades ahead of the all-India target year of 2011 and India is likely to achieve the … marriage ages will be maintained. But this is a temporary respite. (d) Other things being equal on the economic front …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

This paper starts with a review of the three demographic components, stressing the decline in fertility, with the … possibility of reaching below replacement fertility. Studies on new trends in Brazilian out migration are considered relevant for … future research. The demography of compositional effects is discussed in terms of an exercise with the fertility …