Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Part I. Trends:
• 1. The unprecedented shortage of births in Europe Jean Bourgeois-Pichat
• 2. The decline of fertility in non-European industrialized countries Samuel H. Preston
• 3. Low fertility in evolutionary perspective Kingsley Davis
• Part II. Models:
• 4. Altruism and the economic theory of fertility Gary S. Becker and Robert J. Barro
• Comment Paul A. David
• 5. The value and allocation of time in high-income countries: implications for fertility T. Paul Schultz
• Comment Ronald D. Lee
• 6. Competitive human markets, interfamily transfers, and below-replacement fertility Mikhail S. Bernstam
• Part III. Interpretation:
• 7. The family that does not reproduce itself Nathan Keyfitz
• 8. Perspective on nuptiality and fertility Charles F. Westoff
• Comment Shigemi Kono
• 9. Changing values and falling birth rates Samuel H. Preston
• Comment Harriet B. Presser
• Part IV. Consequences:
• 10. Demographic effects of below-replacement fertility and their social implications Ansley J. Coale
• 11. Economic growth with below-replacement fertility Geoffrey McNicoll
• Comments Ester Boserup, Thomas Gale Moore and Carmel U. Chiswick
• 12. Population dynamics with immigration and low fertility Thomas J. Espenshade
• 13. Immigration as a counter to below-replacement fertility in the United States David M. Heer
• Comment Barry R. Chiswick
• Part V. Policies:
• 14. Social security in aging societies Carolyn L. Weaver
• Comment Thomas Gale Moore
• 15. US social security under low fertility Rita Ricardo-Campbell
• Comment Annelise Anderson
• 16. Recent pronatalist policies in western Europe C. Alison Mcintosh
• 17. Pronatalist policies in low-fertility countries: patterns, performance, and prospects Paul Demeny
• Authors.
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