Decline and Prosper!

Decline and Prosper!

Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children

Skirbekk, Vegard

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

04/2022

396

Mole

Inglês

9783030916107

15 a 20 dias

562

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Introduction.- Measuring Fertility.- How Many Children Can Humans Have Biologically?.- Fertility from the Dawn of Humanity through the 19th Century.- The Demographic Transition: Fewer Deaths and Fewer Births, Eventually.-Contemporary Global Fertility.The New Have-Nots: Childlessness in the 21st Century.- More Education, Fewer Children.- An Era of Choice: Childbearing Has Become More Planned.- Fertility Preferences: How Many Children Do People Want?.- Delaying Parenthood, For Better and For Worse.- Finding a Mate: Contemporary Partnership and Conception.- Money Matters: The Economics of Fertility.- Fertility in the Aftermath of Disaster.- New Times, Old Beliefs: Religion and Contemporary Fertility.- Contemporary Fertility from an Evolutionary Perspective: Are the Fittest Still Surviving?.- How Low Will It Go? Projecting Future Fertility.- Fertility, Population Growth and Population Composition.- FertilityPolicies: Past, Present, and Future Directions.- Low - But Not Too Low - Fertility is a Good Thing.
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Fertility Rates;Demography;Population Dynamics;Social Statistics;history of fertility;Childlessness;Contraception;Parenthood;Political demography;Economics;Climate Change;Sustainability