Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2007
592 pages
978-0-226-18025-0 (ISBN)
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",An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries.",-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal",An important landmark in the growing field of economic demography.",-Dudley Kirk, Journal of Developing Areas
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Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Introduction
- 1. Child Costs and Economic Development
- 2. Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility
- 3. Child Mortality and Fertility: Issues in the DemographicTransition of a Migrant Population
- 4. An Economic Interpretation of the Decline inFertility in a Rapidly Developing Country: Consequences of Development and Family Planning
- 5. Causes and Consequences of Mortality Declines in Less Developed Countries during the Twentieth Century
- 6. Internal Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey
- 7. Interactions of Economic and DemographicHousehold Behavior
- 8. Recent Population Trends in Less DevelopedCountries and Implications for InternalIncome Inequality
- 9. A Historical Perspective on Economic Aspectsof the Population Explosion: The Case ofPreindustrial England
- List of Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
