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Fertility, Biology, and Behavior

An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants

  • 1st Edition - April 28, 1983
  • Authors: John Bongaarts, Robert E. Potter
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 1 1 4 3 8 0 - 0
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 1 6 9 8 - 9

Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants presents the proximate determinants of natural fertility. This book discusses the biological and… Read more

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Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants presents the proximate determinants of natural fertility. This book discusses the biological and behavioral dimensions of human fertility that are linked to intermediate fertility variables. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the mechanisms through which socioeconomic variables influence fertility. This text then examines the absolute and relative age-specific marital fertility rates of selected populations. Other chapters consider the trends in total fertility rates of selected countries, including Colombia, Kenya, Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, France, and United States. This book discusses as well the effects of deliberate marital fertility control through contraception and induced abortion. The final chapter deals with the management of sex composition and implications for birth spacing. This book is a valuable resource for reproductive physiologists, social scientists, demographers, statisticians, biologists, and graduate students with an interest in the biological and behavioral control of human fertility.