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A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development With Fertility?

Harttgen, Kenneth ; Vollmer, Sebastian

In: Demography, 2014, vol. 51, no. 1, p. 173-184

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    Titre
    • A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development With Fertility?
    Auteur
    • Harttgen, Kenneth. Nadel, ETH Zürich, Clausiusstr. 37, CLD, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Vollmer, Sebastian. Department of Economics, University of Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073, Göttingen, Germany
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Demography, 2014, vol. 51, no. 1, p. 173-184. Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com
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    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:326178
    Summary
    Myrskylä et al. (2009) found that the relationship between the human development index (HDI) and the total fertility rate (TFR) reverses from negative (i.e., increases in HDI are associated with decreases in TFR) to positive (i.e., increases in HDI are associated with increases in TFR) at an HDI level of 0.86. In this article, we show that the reversal in the HDI-TFR relationship is robust to neither the UNDP's recent revision in the HDI calculation method nor thedecomposition of the HDI into its education, standard-of-living, and health subindices.