The Continuing Demographic Transition

One of the most significant occurrences of this century has been the drastic decline in many countries of tragically high death and birth rates. In this collection, leading demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians examine the causes of this transition and the reasons why many other countries have not followed suit.

List of Contributors and Editors

ix

Introduction

1

(12)

Gavin W. Jones

R. M. Douglas

PART I FERTILITY TRANSITION

13

(14)

1. What Do We Now Know about Fertility Transition?

15

(12)

John C. Caldwell

Pat Caldwell

PART II RECENT INSIGHTS INTO DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

27

(108)

2. The First Health Transition in Australia, 1880-1910

29

(22)

F. B. Smith

3. The Demise of Universal Marriage in East and South-East Asia

51

(29)

Gavin W. Jones

4. An Analysis of Parity-Dependent Fertility Falls in Tropical Africa

80

(14)

William Brass

Fatima Juarez

Anne Scott

5. Replacement-Level Fertility: The Implausible Endpoint of the Demographic Transition

94

(17)

Paul Demeny

6. Intergenerational Wealth Flows and the Elderly in Indonesia

111

(24)

Graeme Hugo

PART III THE PLACE OF CULTURE IN THE EXPLANATION OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

135

(228)

7. The Proper Role of Culture in Demographic Explanation

137

(21)

David I. Kertzer

8. Gender and Demographic Change: What Do We Know?

158

(25)

Karen Oppenheim Mason

9. Marriage Change as Moral Change: Culture, Virtue, and Demographic Transition

183

(30)

Tom Fricke

10. Orderly Theories, Disorderly Women

213

(33)

Susan Cotts Watkins

Naomi Rutenberg

David Wilkinson

11. Numerators and Denominators in the Study of High Fertility Populations: Past and Potential Contributions from Cultural Anthropology

246

(22)

Caroline Bledsoe

Fatou Banja Camara

12. Contraception and Religiosity in Bangladesh

268

(22)

Sajeda Amin

Ian Diamond

Fiona Steele

13. The Rise of Dowry in Bangladesh

290

(17)

Sajeda Amin

Mead Cain

14. Underinvestment in Children: A Reorganization of the Evidence on the Determinants of Child Mortality

307

(25)

Alaka Malwade Basu

15. Health Treatment Behaviour in Sri Lanka

332

(31)

Indrani Pieris

PART IV THE PLACE OF POLICY IN THE EXPLANATION OF RECENT FERTILITY DECLINES

363

(82)

16. The Governance of Fertility Transition: Reflections on the Asian Experience

365

(18)

Geoffrey McNicoll

17. Politics, Culture, and Fertility: Transitions in Indonesia

383

(39)

Terence H. Hull

Valerie J. Hull

18. The Role of Family Planning Programmes in Contemporary Fertility Transitions

422

(23)

John Bongaarts

Index

445

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