demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes: mainly fertility, migration …

labour market participation and comparatively higher fertility. Using data from the 2003 Italian Multipurpose Survey - Family …Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks … have had difficulty in explaining these unprecedented low levels of fertility. More recently, however, attention has turned …

Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the two remains … the particular characteristics of a congregation—leader’s positive attitudes toward family planning and discussion of …

shift towards later childbearing, a novel trend in the Latin American context, and also whether it may signal an emerging … retreat from universal childbearing in the region. …

Empirical studies of the diffusion of modern methods of family planning have increasing incorporated social interaction …. This paper considers the implications of using nonlinear models in empirical analyses of the impact of family programs … ultimate level of use of modern family planning that a population can be expected to reach after the effects of a sustained …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and a direct measure of poverty for … Indonesia, a country, which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility declines over recent decades. It … focuses on illustrating the sensitivity of the effect of fertility on household consumption with respect to the equivalence …

Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican- Origin population in the U.S., the … present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in … the current approach to minority group fertility. Data come from six national surveys (three from Mexico and three from …

This article discusses how fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset, several times larger than … the ones used so far. The status-fertility relation is investigated over several centuries, across world regions and by … the type of status-measure. The study reveals that as fertility declines, there is a general shift from a positive to a …