Economic development, contraception and fertility decline in Mexico

by Jain-Shing A. Chen ..

This article utilises a choice theory based on a three-equation simultaneous model to analyse determinants of contraception, desired number of children and fertility. The results show that a simultaneous choice model predicts the consequences of modernisation on human fertility and suggests ways that economic growth affects family size by proximate or intermediate variables

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Year of publication:	1990
Authors:	Chen, Jain-shing A.
Published in:	The journal of development studies : JDS. - Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, ISSN 0022-0388, ZDB-ID 3018-1. - Vol. 26.1990, 3, p. 408-424
Subject:	Entwicklung \| Economic development \| Fertilität \| Fertility \| Mexiko \| Mexico \| 1976

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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