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Fertility, biology, and behavior : an analysis of the proximate determinants /
Fertility, Biology, and Behavior.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
�1983.
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| Colección: | Studies in population.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW; Terminology; The Proximate Determinants; Fertility and the Proximate Determinants; Variations in Individual Fertility; Age-Specific Fertility; The Determinants of the Proximate Variables; The Organization of This Book; References; CHAPTER 2. NATURAL FERTILITY AND ITS PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS; Natural Fertility; The Proximate Determinants of Natural Marital Fertility.
- The Effect of the Proximate Determinants on Natural FertilitySummary; References; CHAPTER 3. REGULATED FERTILITY AND ITS PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS; Regulated Fertility; Marriage; Contraceptive Use; Contraceptive Effectiveness; Induced Abortion; Summary; Appendix; References; CHAPTER 4. AN AGGREGATE FERTILITY MODEL; The Structure of the Model; Direct Estimation of the Fertility Effects of the Proximate Determinants; Testing the Validity of the Model; The Proximate Determinants of Fertility Levels TF, TN, TM, and TFR; Summary; Appendix: An Equation for Estimating Cc; References.
- CHAPTER 5. APPLICATIONS OF AN AGGREGATE FERTILITY MODELApplication 1: The Transition in the Proximate Determinants; Application 2: Decomposition of a Change in Fertility; Application 3: Socioeconomic Differentials in Marital Fertility; Application 4: An Age-Specific Fertility Model; Application 5: The Empirical Relationship between Fertility and Contraceptive Prevalence; Application 6: Projected Fertility Trends Associated with Changes in Contraceptive Practice; Application 7: Contraceptive Prevalence Levels Required to Reach a Fertility Target; Summary; References.
- CHAPTER 6. A MACROSIMULATION MODEL AND APPLICATIONS TO FECUNDITY AND NATURAL FERTILITYIntroduction; Reproductive Models; Repmod; Validation of the Model; Application to Fecundity; Natural Fertility; Summary; References; CHAPTER 7. FAMILY-SIZE CONTROL; Introduction; Operationalization; Subfertility; Excess Fertility; Some Additional Topics; Summary; References; CHAPTER 8. BIRTH SPACING; Introduction; Previous Study; Unregulated Birth Spacing; Master-Schedule Spacing; Serial-Spacing Preferences; Evaluating Fecundability; Pinpoint Spacing; Summary; References; CHAPTER 9. SEX PRESELECTION.
- IntroductionPrevious Research; An Alternative Approach; Assumptions; Birth-Trial Probabilities; Family Composition without Sex Preselection; Sequential Goals; Compositional Goals; Spacing Consequences; Summary; References; SUBIECT INDEX; STUDIES IN POPULATION.