Analyzing Contemporary Fertility (eBook)

Robert Schoen (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
VIII, 306 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-48519-1 (ISBN)

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This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction. The volume explores new theoretical avenues that seek to incorporate uncertainty, examine social contagion effects, and explain the rise in childlessness. Reproductive attitudes are re-examined in chapters that deal with models of parenthood and with the persistence of race-ethnic-nativity differences. A new and important subject of multi-partner fertility is also described by examining it in the context of total fertility and from the usually neglected perspective of men. The impact of divorce on fertility, the measurement of childlessness and the postponement of first births, developments in assortative mating and fertility, and current patterns of interracial fertility are also addressed in this volume. By combining up-to-date research spanning the entire field to illuminate contemporary developments, the book is a valuable source for demographers, sociologists, economists, and all those interested in understanding fertility in today's world.

Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography / Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.8.2020
• Reihe/Serie: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
• Reihe/Serie: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 306 p. 41 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Areal differences in fertility • Assortative mating and fertility • Childlessness • Contemporary fertility • Fertility analysis • Fertility and divorce • Fertility by parity • Fertility of men • Human fertility • Interracial fertility • Multipartner fertility • Religion and fertility • Reproductive attitudes and knowledge • Second Demographic Transition • Social contagion effects • Uncertainty and fertility • Welfare and fertility
• ISBN-10: 3-030-48519-6 / 3030485196
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-48519-1 / 9783030485191