The Later Years of Childbearing /

The Later Years of Childbearing / / Charles F. Westoff, Larry L. Bumpass.

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Why do American couples differ in the number of children they have? To answer this question the first major longitudinal study in American fertility was begun in 1957 with a series of interviews with parents of two children. Family Growth in Metropolitan America (1961) and The Third Child (1963) rep...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
VerfasserIn:
Bumpass, Larry L.,
Westoff, Charles F.,
MitwirkendeR:
Featherman, David L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1971
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Office of Population Research ; 1674
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • I. Background, Sample, and Objectives
  • II. The Stability of Family-Size Desires
  • III. The Timing of Fertility
  • IV. The Prediction of Fertility
  • V. The Improvement of Contraceptive Use
  • VI. Social and Psychological Influences on Fertility
  • VII. Marital Fertility and the Process of Socioeconomic Achievement: An Examination of the Mobility Hypothesis
  • VIII. The Reliability of Retrospective Reporting on Fertility and Fertility Control
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Statistical Significance
  • APPENDIX B. Related Publications
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index

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