Fertility, Biology, and Behavior
An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants
Published on 8. December 2014
245 pages
978-0-08-091698-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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English
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San Diego
United States
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978-0-08-091698-9 (9780080916989)
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John Bongaarts | Robert E. Potter
Fertility, Biology, and Behavior
An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants
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06/1983
Academic Press
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Robert Potter, ASHA Fellow, has been a therapist and an academician in a variety of settings including public school, medical school, Job Corp, private practice, metropolitan speech and hearing centers, and several universities. For most of his academic career, he was a member of the Washington State University Speech and Hearing Sciences Department, in which he served as either chair or program director for 21 years. After leaving WSU, where he is professor emeritus of Speech and Hearing Sciences, he joined the University of Oregon Communication Disorders Program where he was professor and senior research associate. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and has served as a grant reviewer and panelist for the Department of Education and ASHA and as an accreditation site visitor for the latter. A tribute to his pedagogical skills was recently noted by a Golden Apple Award in the ASHA Leader. Also, in recognition of his teaching, there is a classroom named in his honor at WSU.
Content
PrefaceAcknowledgments1 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 References2 Natural Fertility and Its Proximate Determinants Natural Fertility The Proximate Determinants of Natural Marital Fertility The Effect of the Proximate Determinants on Natural Fertility Summary References3 Regulated Fertility and Its Proximate Determinants Regulated Fertility Marriage Contraceptive Use Contraceptive Effectiveness Induced Abortion Summary Appendix References4 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 References5 Applications of an Aggregate Fertility Model Application 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 References6 A Macrosimulation Model and Applications to Fecundity and Natural Fertility Introduction Reproductive Models REPMOD Validation of the Model Application to Fecundity Natural Fertility Summary References7 Family-Size Control Introduction Operationalization Subfertility Excess Fertility Some Additional Topics Summary References8 Birth Spacing Introduction Previous Study Unregulated Birth Spacing Master-Schedule Spacing Serial-Spacing Preferences Evaluating Fecundability Pinpoint Spacing Summary References9 Sex Preselection Introduction Previous Research An Alternative Approach Assumptions Birth-Trial Probabilities Family Composition without Sex Preselection Sequential Goals Compositional Goals Spacing Consequences Summary ReferencesSubject Index
