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| What are the two ways Fertility is Measured? |
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| Through Period and Cohort Measures |
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| What are the types of Period Measures? |
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Crude Birth Rate
Age-Specific Fertility Rate |
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| number of live births in a year divided by population |
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| how many births in a year from ages X to X |
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| single index of fertility covering all ages |
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| What do Cohort measures do? |
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| follow specific people over whole lives |
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| how many children would be produced if people went at it (11) |
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| How many kids possible to have |
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| What are the 5 primary fertility theories? |
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Demographic Transition/ Ideation Theories
Integrational Wealth Flow
Children as Consumer Durables
Opportunity Costs of Children
Supply and Demand |
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| Demographic Transition/Ideation Theory |
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Definition
| spreading cultural beliefs about secularism, self determination, independence |
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| Integrational Wealth Flows |
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Definition
Traditional:
children to parents, take care of them
Modern:
parents to children, spoil them, prolong childhood |
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| Children as Consumer Durables |
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Definition
children as something you can buy or invest in
cheap start up cost, but longterm implications |
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| Opportunity Cost of Children |
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Definition
more women are educated, less likely to have kids
time with children is lost money |
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Historical: high mortality, high fertility
Modern: low mortality, low fertility |
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| Empirical Reasons for High Fertility |
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Definition
need to replenish society
children as labor
children as security
desire for sons
ambivalence |
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| Empirical Reasons for Low Fertility |
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Definition
Secularization
Economic Burden of Children
Quality vs. Quantity
Increased Status of Women
Social Mobility
Slippage |
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Not having kids in money to spend
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| How to economic climate is; people don't want kids if the economy is bad |
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| What are the three factors of the Proximate Determinants in Fertility? |
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Exposure Factors
Deliberate Fertility Control
Natural Factors |
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Age when married
Abstinence in marriage |
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lactation infecudnability
frequency of sex
sterility
duration of fertility
miscarriage |
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| Deliberate Fertility Control |
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Definition
Contraception
Withdrawl
Abortion |
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Term
| ___ out of ___ girls are killed in India |
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Definition
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| __ in __ of girls in village are girls |
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Definition
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| marriage costs __ to __ years in wages |
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Definition
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| __ in __ babies are killed |
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Definition
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| ___ female fetuses aborted a day |
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| India is short ____ girls |
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