Determinants of Fertility: a Micro-economic Model of Choice

T. Schultz ()

Chapter 4 in Economic Factors in Population Growth, 1976, pp 89-135 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are many explanations of why human fertility varies from one society to another and among different groups or individuals within the same society. Attempts to identify and measure the factors that affect fertility and hence to discriminate among current competing causal hypotheses have not been notably successful. This gap in our basic stock of knowledge is both a source of embarrassment to social scientists and an obstacle to the strategic formulation and tactical evaluation of population policies throughout the world.

Keywords: Ordinary Little Square; Reproductive Behaviour; Underdeveloped Country; Population Policy; Rand Corporation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1976
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02518-3_4

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