Opening book details…
Can I read Population Pressure and Fertility in Pre-Transition Thailand on EtoBox?
Population Pressure and Fertility in Pre-Transition Thailand by Mark Vanlandingham, Charles Hirschman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Population Pressure and Fertility in Pre-Transition Thailand about?
Before the demographic transition in Thailand, fertility was high, but not uniformlys o. As in other pre-transitions ettings,T hai fertilityr espondedt o pressuresa nd opportunitiesc reated by socioeconomic structurea nd land availability.D rawing upon provinciadl ataf romt he 1947a nd 1960c ensuseso f Thailand,w e find a strong' frontiere ffect' on Thai fertility in the 1950s. Fertility was higher in sparsely settled frontier provinces and loweri n provincesw ith higherp opulationd ensityr elativet o cultivatablela nd. This findingi s robusta nd holds up with controlsf or agriculturaelm ploymentl,a nd quality,a nd the sex ratio (an indicator of sex-selective migration). The effect of population pressure lowers the likelihoodo f marriagea nd of maritalf ertilityT. he findingsf romT hailanda rec onsistentw ith the researcho f Easterlino n the nineteenthc enturyU nitedS tatesa ndw ith otherp re-transition societies. We suggest how demographic transition theory might be broadened to include fertilityd ynamicsin pre-transitionso cieties
Who reads Population Pressure and Fertility in Pre-Transition Thailand?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Vanlandingham, Charles Hirschman
- Publisher
- Population Investigation Committee
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social_sciences
More by Mark Vanlandingham, Charles Hirschman
Browse all works by Mark Vanlandingham, Charles Hirschman
Similar books
- Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (Population and Development (Chicago, Ill.).) — David Shapiro, B. Oleko Tambashe, (2003)
- Low Fertility and Population Aging in Japan and Eastern Asia (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies) — Toru Suzuki (2013)
- Fertility Transition in the Developing World (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies) — Dennis Hodgson John Bongaarts (2022)
- Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition : Selected Perspectives — National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on Population; John B. Casterline (2001)
- Fertility Change in Contemporary Japan (Population and Development Series) — Robert W. Hodge and Naohiro Ogawa (1991)
- The Fertility Transition in Iran : Revolution and Reproduction — Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Peter McDonald, Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi (auth.) (2009)