Focuses on fertility and family transitions in selected Third World countries, exploring critical aspects of the relationship between population and development. The essays examine population processes as they unfold and develop over time, highlighting the need to go beyond economic explanations and identifying the priorities among social structura
Brown University Studies in Population and Development -- Foreword --
Historical Fertility Transitions -- Beyond Economic Reductionism: The
Transformation of the Reproductive Regimes in France and Belgium in the 18th
and 19th Centuries -- Transitions in Asia -- Sociodemographic Determinants of
the Fertility Transition in Korea -- The Social Context of Fertility Decline
in Thailand -- Nuptiality Patterns in Thailand: Their Implications for
Further Fertility Decline -- Relationships Between Maternal Nutrition and
Fertility in Developing Countries -- The Effect of Migration on Contraceptive
Usage and Service Point Choice in Indonesia -- Women and Family Structure --
Economic Development, Womens Status, and Changing Family Structure in Taiwan
-- Family Structure, Liberty and Equality, and Divorce: A Cross-National
Examination -- Extended Households: A Survival Strategy in Poverty -- Rice,
Labor, and Children: A Study of Peasants Livelihood Strategies in Northeast
Thailand -- Population Policy and Development Planning -- The Integration of
Population Factors into the Development Planning Process: A Review of Methods
and Approaches -- From Demographic Models to Public Policy -- The Nature and
Tasks of Population and Development Planning
Calvin Goldscheider (Ph.D., 1964) is a professor of Sociology and Judaic Studies, Brown University, and Faculty Associate of the Population Research and Training Center.
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