Published in Demographic research
The analysis was based on the 1994 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey combined with aggregate data from the 1992 census. Discrete-time hazard models for first and higher-order births were estimated for 1990-94. The average length of education in the district and the proportion who are literate were found to have no impact on a woman's birth rat...
Published in Demographic research
The simultaneity of decreasing fertility and changing family structures in many European countries has led to a growing interest in fertility behavior in its relation to different family structures. The growing prevalence of higher-order unions (and the consequences for parity progression arising therefrom) is one example of an ongoing change in fe...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
In this study, the determinants of contraceptive use and method choice are examined based on various variables, classified as individual, cultural, fertility and contextual. The data used came from the 1993 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. The main finding is that there exists a positive association between the educational level of both spous...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
There is a general consensus in the literature that fertility differences between populations can be accounted for by differences in just four key proximate determinants: nuptiality, the postpartum non-susceptible period, contraception and abortion. Natural fecundibility is generally assumed to be constant between populations. This paper puts the t...
Published in Asia-Pacific population journal / United Nations
This study examines the trends in contraceptive use and fertility levels in Bangladesh using national-level data from 1975-97. It also considers the major factors affecting contraceptive use and fertility. Data from the 1993/94 and 1996/97 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey were also used for the multivariate analysis of the determinants of contr...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
This study presents and tests a new conceptualization of the relationship between the type of social environment in which women work and their fertility and contraceptive use using data from three separate studies conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1993. Studies demonstrated that women who work in more collectivized environments are associated wit...
Published in Applied economics
The paper presents a theoretical background for the analysis of the relationship between fertility and a number of socioeconomic factors associated with the process of economic development and analyses empirically this relationship within a cross-country framework. Fertility is found to be negatively related with female education, urbanization, and...
Published in European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie
A two-period stochastic model of fertility behavior was developed in order to provide an explanation for the staggering decrease in birth rates in former Soviet Republics and Eastern European countries. A link between income uncertainty and fertility behavior was proposed. The increase in uncertainty about future income could lead people to postpon...
Published in Family planning perspectives
This paper seeks to identify which of the women who reported in 1988 that they wanted to avoid childbearing for good or to postpone a birth for at least three years were most successful at avoiding a birth in the interval between 1988 and 1990. The data used were taken from the 1988 National Survey of Fertility Growth and a 1990 telephone reintervi...
Published in Journal of anthropological research
The introduction of mechanized technology into a rural Maya agricultural community in the mid 1970s markedly increased the technology with which maize could be ground and water collected, which in turn introduced a possible savings in the time spent working. This study investigated the response of female fertility to the introduction of this labor-...
