Globalization, Family Structure, and Declining Fertility in the Developing World

Sarah F. Harbison and Warren C. Robinson
Additional contact information
Sarah F. Harbison: Center for Population and Development Activities

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2003, vol. 35, issue 1, 44-55

Abstract: Striking changes are occurring in family structure in the developing world, and fertility is falling due to a weakening of traditional family controls and a declining value given to procreation. A model of marriage focused on marriage as economic transaction helps explain these diverse trends. The findings reveal a serious threat to young women in such transitional societies. The declining value of their procreative power puts women at the mercy of impersonal, market-driven economic forces with which they are ill equipped to deal.

Keywords: globalization; family structure; fertility rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0486613402250189 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:35:y:2003:i:1:p:44-55

DOI: 10.1177/0486613402250189

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Review of Radical Political Economics from Union for Radical Political Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().