دانلود کتاب Population Pressure and Fertility in Pre-Transition Thailand

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Before the demographic transition in Thailand, fertility was high, but not uniformlys o. As in other pre-transitions ettings,T hai fertilityr espondedt o pressuresa nd opportunitiesc reated by socioeconomic structurea nd land availability.D rawing upon provinciadl ataf romt he 1947a nd 1960c ensuseso f Thailand,w e find a strong' frontiere ffect' on Thai fertility in the 1950s. Fertility was higher in sparsely settled frontier provinces and loweri n provincesw ith higherp opulationd ensityr elativet o cultivatablela nd. This findingi s robusta nd holds up with controlsf or agriculturaelm ploymentl,a nd quality,a nd the sex ratio (an indicator of sex-selective migration). The effect of population pressure lowers the likelihoodo f marriagea nd of maritalf ertilityT. he findingsf romT hailanda rec onsistentw ith the researcho f Easterlino n the nineteenthc enturyU nitedS tatesa ndw ith otherp re-transition societies. We suggest how demographic transition theory might be broadened to include fertilityd ynamicsin pre-transitionso cieties