Overview
- Provides a cutting edge analyses of the changing fertility dynamics
- Includes theory, context, and determinants of contemporary human reproduction
- Describes new determinants such as religion and multi-partner fertility
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 51)
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Keywords
- Contemporary fertility
- Human fertility
- Fertility analysis
- Second Demographic Transition
- Social contagion effects
- Religion and fertility
- Areal differences in fertility
- Reproductive attitudes and knowledge
- Fertility and divorce
- Fertility of men
- Fertility by parity
- Interracial fertility
- Childlessness
- Welfare and fertility
- Multipartner fertility
- Assortative mating and fertility
- Uncertainty and fertility
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility
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Fertility Intentions
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The Demography of Multipartner Fertility
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Analyzing Contemporary Fertility
Editors: Robert Schoen
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48519-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48518-4Published: 13 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48521-4Published: 14 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48519-1Published: 12 August 2020
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences