Analyzing Contemporary Fertility

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This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-13
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt641 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
Antal sidor306
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030485184

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Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography / Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility.- Chapter 2. Social capital, gender competition, and the resurgence of childlessness.- Chapter 3. Uncertainty and narratives of the future: A theoretical framework for contemporary fertility.- Chapter 4. Social contagion effects in fertility: Theory and analytical strategy.- Chapter 5. The context of interracial childbearing in the United States.- Part II: Fertility Intentions.- Chapter 6. Do reproductive attitudes and knowledge explain race-ethnic-nativity differences in unintended fertility?.- Chapter 7. Regional fertility differences in India.- Part III: The Demography of Multipartner Fertility.- Chapter 8. Multi-partner fertility in Europe and the United States.- Chapter 9. Welfare regimes and fertility in second unions.- Chapter 10.- Years spent as mothers of young children: The role of completed fertility, birth spacing, and multiple partner fertility.- Chapter 11.- Where’s daddy? Challenges inthe measurement of men’s fertility.- Part IV: Issues of Measurement.- Chapter 12. Measuring the prevalence of multipartner fertility independent of fertility level. Chapter 13. Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: Illustration of U.S. cohorts of reproductive age in 2015.