Social Change, the Social Organization of Families, and Fertility Limitation

Axinn, William G.; Yabiku, Scott T.

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“…The increased availability of health services typically coincides with equally substantial increases in educational and employment opportunities, transportation and market access, and media exposure, all of which are also linked to changes in fertility behavior (Axinn and Yabiku 2001;Casterline 1985;Gertler and Molyneaux 1994;Hernandez 1981). For example, the spread of mass education has substantial and multi-dimensional impacts on fertility limiting behavior, as do increased access to wage labor opportunities, markets, transportation, and media (Caldwell 1982;Casterline 2001;Cleland and Hobcraft 1985;Coale and Watkins 1986;Gertler and Molyneaux 1994).…”

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“…So, at any particular level of transportation infrastructure investigators who use a specific radius to investigate the health service context must also assess the sensitivity of their results to varying assumptions about the exact distance of that radius. Because the specific setting we investigate is characterized by extremely limited transportation infrastructure, we focus on radii of short distances in our examination of health services, and test the sensitivity of our estimates to different assumptions regarding the appropriate distance (Axinn and Yabiku 2001).…”

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“…Maternal and child health services have been promoted as an important influence on couples' fertility related behaviors because they decrease mortality (Caldwell 1986;Foster 1984;Pebley 1984). However, the spread of these services often accompanies numerous other important social, economic, and institutional changes that affect fertility behaviors (Axinn and Yabiku 2001;Caldwell 1986;Hernandez 1981;Mason 1997). Of specific concern is that maternal and child health services often exist in conjunction with family planning services, and other key aspects of community context, yet we know little of their independent influence on fertility behavior.…”

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We use detailed measures of social change over time, increased availability of various health services, and couple's fertility behaviors to document the independent effects of health services on fertility limitation. Our investigation focuses on a setting in rural Nepal that experienced a transition from virtually no use of birth control in 1945 to the widespread use of birth control to limit fertility by 1995. Changes in the availability of many different dimensions of health services provide the means to evaluate their independent influences on contraceptive use to limit childbearing. Findings show that both family planning and maternal and child health services have independent effects on the rate of ending childbearing. For example, the provision of child immunization services increases the rate of contraceptive use to limit fertility independently of family planning services. Additionally, new GIS based measures also allow us to test many alternative models of the spatial distribution of services. These tests reveal that complex, geographically defined measures of all health service providers out perform more simple measures. These results provide new information about the consequences of maternal and child health services and the importance of these services in shaping fertility transitions.

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“…La Ferrara et al (2012) finds that arrival of TV shows portraying low-fertility lifestyles reduces actual fertility in Brazilian communities. Axinn and Barber (2001); Axinn and Yabiku (2001) use the purpose-collected dataset from rural Nepal to show that living near social places such as school (even controlling for actual school attendance), a bus stop, or a market, in the early childhood, increases the chance of contraception use during adulthood. The countries of Eastern Europe had a sharp decline in fertility beginning from around 1987, at the time of sharply increased openness to culture of Western Europe.…”

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Endogenous growth and demographic transition in a model of cultural transmission

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2016

J Evol Econ

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Demographic transition theory is developed highlighting cultural transmission pattern as key driver. Individuals maximize cultural fitness, i.e. rate of own cultural type absorbtion by future generations. With low population density, one's culture can be picked up only by own children, thus cultural fitness equals genetic fitness, individuals allocate all energy surplus to reproduction, and Malthusian regime occurs. With rising population density, cultural transmission between non-relatives accelerates; knowledge production by an individual makes her culture more attractive. Individuals reallocate some of energy surplus from reproduction to knowledge production, causing technological growth. The model fits observed demographic transition patterns.

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“…Differences in boys' and girls' educational attainment are understood to have important influences upon the extent and pace of social and behavioral change associated with development (Appleton & Collier, 1995;Axinn & Barber, 2001;Axinn & Yobiku, 2001;Behrman et al, 1997;Blossfeld & Huinink, 1991;Hadden & London, 1996;King & Hill, 1993;Malhotra & Mather, 1997;Subbarao & Raney, 1995;Summers, 1994;Tzannatos, 1999). And, targeting women's literacy through informal education programs and girls' expanded educational opportunities has been a central goal of governmental, multilateral, and non-governmental organizational efforts to promote efficient economic development (Knodel & Jones, 1996;Summers, 1994;Tzannatos, 1999).…”

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Within individual countries, the paths towards increasing educational attainment are not always linear and individuals are not equally affected. Differences between boys' and girls' educational attainments are a common expression of this inequality as boys are more often favored for continued schooling. We examine the importance of birth cohort, sibship size, migration, and school accessibility for explaining both the gender gap and its narrowing in secondary schooling in one district in Northeast Thailand between 1984-1994. Birth cohort is a significant explanation for the narrowing of the gender gap. Migration, sibship size, and remote village location are important explanations for limited secondary education opportunities, especially for girls.

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Social Change, the Social Organization of Families, and Fertility Limitation

Cited by 160 publications

References 51 publications

The Spread of Health Services and Fertility Transition

The Spread of Health Services and Fertility Transition

Endogenous growth and demographic transition in a model of cultural transmission

Educational Opportunities for Boys and Girls in Thailand

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