Using government secondary school English language textbooks from Malaysia, Indonesia,
Pakistan and Bangladesh, we conducted a quantitative content analysis in order to identify …

This article presents an updated overview of the relationship between women's education
and fertility. Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 26 countries are examined …

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals
in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to …

This article discusses how fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset,
several times larger than the ones used so far. The status-fertility relation is investigated over …

Using demographic multi-state, cohort-component methods, we produce projections for 120
countries (covering 93% of the world population in 2005) by five-year age groups, sex, and …

Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and
Educational Opportunity provides a theoretical framework in which research findings on the …

Levels of fertility among Indochinese refugees in the United States are explored in the
context of a highly compressed demographic transition implicit in the move from high-fertility …

Background A" typical" kinship structure does not exist in India; women/'s status varies
widely by region. It is well known, for example, that women in the south experience …

This article describes an approach to an explanation of fertility that is sensitive to the
dependence of the behavior of individuals or couples on social context and sets forth …

Building on the widespread recent suggestion that the education of girls may well be one of
the best investments that a less-developed country can make, this study presents the results …