Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for Children? (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

. Ed(s): Buchanan, Ann; Rotkirch, Anna

ISBN 10: 1137030380 / ISBN 13: 9781137030382

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children and can social policy reverse fertility decline? Editor(s): Buchanan, Ann; Rotkirch, Anna. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526. . 2013. 2013th Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for Children? (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137030380
• ISBN 13: 9781137030382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children and can social policy reverse fertility decline?

About the Author

Jennifer Barber, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, USA Stuart Basten, Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, UK David Coleman, Demography at the University of Oxford, UK Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Heather Gatny, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, USA Anne H. Gauthier, Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada Sarah Harper, Gerontology at Oxford University, UK John Haskey, University of Oxford, UK Olga Isupova, Institute of Demography at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Gavin W. Jones, Asia Research Institute at the national University of Singapore Yasamin Kusunoki, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, USA Marie-Louise Newell, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, South Africa Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton, UK David S. Reher, the Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Justine Roberts, Mumsnet, UK Kate Williams, Mumsnet, UK Robert Rowthorn, University of Cambridge, UK Jennifer Yarger, University of California, USA Zhenzhen Zheng, Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, China