On the Possibility of Increasing Fertility in the Underdeveloped Nations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106411 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John T Krause (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1960 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-487 |
| Publication date | 1960-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500000888 |
| OpenAlex | W2099935436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
In the last issue Richard A. Easterlin criticized some arguments which I have advanced. Because I think that his main point is at least partially irrelevant, I shall briefly summarize my argument. I suggested that demographic growth in the pre-industrial West was determined primarily by levels of fertility, levels which depended in large part on economic factors, and that mortality has been the major variable in the demographic growth of most less developed countries today mainly because they do not control fertility in the interest of the maintenance of a given standard of living. From this basic difference, I drew a number of consequences. Among them, but by no means the most important, was the one to which Easterlin devoted most attention. It was my statement: 'Hence, there is the possibility that improved nutrition and health will increase birth rates fantastically.'1 Easterlin omitted the first six words of the sentence from his quotation
Argument (complex analysis) · Birth rate · Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Developed country · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Point (geometry) · Population · Positive economics · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demography · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Mathematics · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 2003 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |