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Fertility behavior in Azerbaijan : on the demographic-economic paradox

Author:
Stiefel, Maximilian Salvador
Degree Grantor:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Geography
Degree Supervisor:
Stuart Sweeney
Place of Publication:
[Santa Barbara, Calif.]
Publisher:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Creation Date:
2016
Issued Date:
2016
Topics:
Demography and Evolution & development
Keywords:
Fertility behavior
Demographic-economic paradox
Genres:
Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
Dissertation:
M.A.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
Description:

Pre-modern humans increased fertility when able to generate more resources per unit of energy. Modern, post-industrial societies instead exhibit a negative wealth-fertility relationship. This empirical mismatch coincides with a discrepancy between evolutionary and demographic theory, termed the demographic-economic paradox. This study contributes to literature on the demographic-economic paradox by analyzing Demographic and Health Survey data from 2005 in Azerbaijan. We address two issues: how wealth affects lifetime reproductive success among post-reproductive women, and whether individuals in market integrated societies exhibit increased preferences towards socioeconomic success over fertility. We use multilevel models to explore lifetime reproductive success as count data with a Poisson error structure and how educational attainment affects the risk of birth at a given age conditional on no births before that age using a discrete time hazard model. We find that lifetime reproductive success is negatively correlated with wealth and significantly lower in more urban areas. Higher educated women delay fertility longer, and urban women tend to delay fertility longer holding educational attainment constant. The wealthier have lower lifetime reproductive success, and the more market integrated preference socioeconomic status seeking over fitness maximization, at least in early life stages.

Physical Description:
1 online resource (69 pages)
Format:
Text
Collection(s):
UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
ARK:
ark:/48907/f3s182nn
ISBN:
9781369340679
Catalog System Number:
990047190030203776
Rights:
Inc.icon only.dark In Copyright
Copyright Holder:
Maximilian Stiefel
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