Session 12:
Darwinian approaches to explaining demographic transition
Chair: Lesley Newson, University of California, Davis
Can the trade-off between quantity and quality of children explain modern fertility decline? • David W Lawson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ; Ruth Mace, University College London
Education, income and offspring count in men and women. Evolutionary explanations hold true in modern societies. • Martin Fieder, University of Vienna ; Susanne Huber, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine
The influence of perceived mortality risk on fertility preferences: how life history theory and demographic transition theory can collaborate to improve our understanding of fertility decline • Paul Mathews, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ; Rebecca Sear, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Kin influence on the decision to start using modern contraception: a longitudinal study from rural Gambia. • Ruth Mace, University College London ; Heidi Colleran, University College London
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