Economic Equality and Fertility in Developing Countries

Reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in developed and developing countries. This book presents a conceptual framework to examine how fertility responds to changes in the distribution of household income.

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 policy implications are discussed. This book was originally published in 1979.