Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies
Causes, Consequences, Policies

Noted economists, demographers, and sociologists discuss the demographic effects of below-replacement fertility.

Kingsley Davis (Edited by), Mikhail S. Bernstam (Edited by), Rita Ricardo-Campbell (Edited by)

9780521673365, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 January 2006

372 pages, 40 tables
24.4 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.6 kg

This collection of eighteen papers and eleven commentaries by noted economists, demographers, and sociologists, combines systematic discussions of the demographic effects of below-replacement fertility with efforts to explain its social origins, to determine the likely societal consequences and to assess potential policy responses.

Preface
Part I. Trends: 1. The unprecedented shortage of births in Europe Jean Bourgeois-Pichat
2. The decline of fertility in non-European industrialized countries Samuel H. Preston
3. Low fertility in evolutionary perspective Kingsley Davis
Part II. Models: 4. Altruism and the economic theory of fertility Gary S. Becker and Robert J. Barro
Comment Paul A. David
5. The value and allocation of time in high-income countries: implications for fertility T. Paul Schultz
Comment Ronald D. Lee
6. Competitive human markets, interfamily transfers, and below-replacement fertility Mikhail S. Bernstam
Part III. Interpretation: 7. The family that does not reproduce itself Nathan Keyfitz
8. Perspective on nuptiality and fertility Charles F. Westoff
Comment Shigemi Kono
9. Changing values and falling birth rates Samuel H. Preston
Comment Harriet B. Presser
Part IV. Consequences: 10. Demographic effects of below-replacement fertility and their social implications Ansley J. Coale
11. Economic growth with below-replacement fertility Geoffrey McNicoll
Comments Ester Boserup, Thomas Gale Moore and Carmel U. Chiswick
12. Population dynamics with immigration and low fertility Thomas J. Espenshade
13. Immigration as a counter to below-replacement fertility in the United States David M. Heer
Comment Barry R. Chiswick
Part V. Policies: 14. Social security in aging societies Carolyn L. Weaver
Comment Thomas Gale Moore
15. US social security under low fertility Rita Ricardo-Campbell
Comment Annelise Anderson
16. Recent pronatalist policies in western Europe C. Alison Mcintosh
17. Pronatalist policies in low-fertility countries: patterns, performance, and prospects Paul Demeny
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Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]