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Tables of Contents for Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
List of Contributors
xv
Part I Introduction
Introduction and Overview
3
16
Richard Leete
Part II The Value of Children
Theories of the Value of Children: A New Approach
19
32
Debra Friedman
Michael Hechter
Satoshi Kanazawa
Part III The Multi-dimensional Nature of Values and Value Change
Traditional Families and Fertility Decline: Lessons from Australia's Southern Europeans
51
27
Gigi Santow
Michael D. Bracher
The Cultural Significance of Western Fertility Trends in the 1980s
78
22
John Simons
Changes in Fertility Values and Behavior: A Life Course Perspective
100
21
Gijs C.N. Beets
Aart C. Liefbroer
Jenny Gierveld
Values and Fertility Change in Japan
121
27
Robert D. Retherford
Naohiro Ogawa
Satomi Sakamoto
Women, Work, and Children: Behavioural and Ideational Change in the United States
148
31
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Karin L. Brewster
Andrew L. Kavee
Part IV Mechanisms of Value Change
Social Networks and the Diffusion of Fertility Control in the Republic of Korea
179
31
Mark R. Montgomery
Woojin Chung
Interaction, Diffusion, and Fertility Transition in Costa Rica: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence
210
27
Luis Rosero-Bixby
Mass Communications and Fertility
237
15
Charles F. Westoff
Television, Telenovelas, and Fertility Change in North-East Brazil
252
23
Vilmar E. Faria
Joseph E. Potter
Part V Gender Values, Religion, Culture and Fertility Change
Fairness and Fertility: The Meaning of Son Preference in Morocco
275
18
Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer
Religious Values and Fertility Decline: Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace, 1750-1870
293
17
Kevin McQuillan
Religious Values, Dependencies, and Fertility: Evidence and Implications from Israel
310
21
Calvin Goldscheider
Cultural Perspectives on West African Fertility Change
331
12
Kofi D. Benefo
Worldliness and Fertility Control: Cultural Attributes of Contraceptive Users among Rural Bangladeshi Women
343
14
Ahmed Al-Sabir
John Simons
Part VI Conclusion
Conclusions
357
14
John B. Casterline
Index
371