List of Contributors and Editors

Introduction

Gavin W. Jones

R. M. Douglas

PART I FERTILITY TRANSITION

1. What Do We Now Know about Fertility Transition?

John C. Caldwell

Pat Caldwell

PART II RECENT INSIGHTS INTO DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

2. The First Health Transition in Australia, 1880-1910

F. B. Smith

3. The Demise of Universal Marriage in East and South-East Asia

Gavin W. Jones

4. An Analysis of Parity-Dependent Fertility Falls in Tropical Africa

William Brass

Fatima Juarez

Anne Scott

5. Replacement-Level Fertility: The Implausible Endpoint of the Demographic Transition

Paul Demeny

6. Intergenerational Wealth Flows and the Elderly in Indonesia

Graeme Hugo

PART III THE PLACE OF CULTURE IN THE EXPLANATION OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

7. The Proper Role of Culture in Demographic Explanation

David I. Kertzer

8. Gender and Demographic Change: What Do We Know?

Karen Oppenheim Mason

9. Marriage Change as Moral Change: Culture, Virtue, and Demographic Transition

Tom Fricke

10. Orderly Theories, Disorderly Women

Susan Cotts Watkins

Naomi Rutenberg

David Wilkinson

11. Numerators and Denominators in the Study of High Fertility Populations: Past and Potential Contributions from Cultural Anthropology

Caroline Bledsoe

Fatou Banja Camara

12. Contraception and Religiosity in Bangladesh

Sajeda Amin

Ian Diamond

Fiona Steele

13. The Rise of Dowry in Bangladesh

Sajeda Amin

Mead Cain

14. Underinvestment in Children: A Reorganization of the Evidence on the Determinants of Child Mortality

Alaka Malwade Basu

15. Health Treatment Behaviour in Sri Lanka

Indrani Pieris

PART IV THE PLACE OF POLICY IN THE EXPLANATION OF RECENT FERTILITY DECLINES

16. The Governance of Fertility Transition: Reflections on the Asian Experience

Geoffrey McNicoll

17. Politics, Culture, and Fertility: Transitions in Indonesia

Terence H. Hull

Valerie J. Hull

18. The Role of Family Planning Programmes in Contemporary Fertility Transitions

John Bongaarts

Index