1st Edition

Economic Equality and Fertility in Developing Countries

By Robert Repetto Copyright 2011
210 Pages
by RFF Press

209 Pages
by RFF Press

This book briefly reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in developed and developing countries. He presents a conceptual framework to examine how fertility responds to changes in the distribution of household income. The analysis of data from Puerto Rico, Korea, and rural India is carefully executed, and conclusive... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: The Conceptual Framework and Evidence from Aggregated Data; 3: Evidence from Puerto Rican Household Data; 4: Korea as a Case Study: An Historical Approach; 5: Internal Policies for Income Redistribution in Rural India; 6: International Implications

Biography

Robert Repetto

'...This book is likely to become a standard work, to be referred to time and again by scholars and policy makers in those fields concerned with interaction between population, development, and social justice.' David E. Horlacher, Susquehanna University