Demand or ideation? Evidence from the Iranian marital fertility decline.

A study was conducted, using data on fertility in Iran, to examine whether the onset of fertility decline is caused by structural socioeconomic changes or by the transmission of new ideas. The findings revealed that marital fertility in Iran began to decline in 1959, a few years after the beginning...

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Published in:	Demography Vol. 32; pp. 159 - 183
Main Authors:	Raftery, Adrian E., Lewis, Steven M., Aghajanian, Akbar
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. May 1995
Subjects:	Economic development Rural urban differences Children > Mortality
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost