. Drawing on theories of family and fertility change and a rural Asian panel study designed to measure changes in both marital … higher rates of contraception to terminate childbearing. These results add a new dimension to the evidence linking … revolutions in marital behavior to long-term declines in fertility and suggest that new research should consider a broader range …

demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …