Thursday, May 1 / 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM   •   Carver

Session 19:
Social Forces Shaping Very Low Fertility

Chair: William P. Butz, RAND
Discussant: Jan Hoem, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

  1. An Analysis of Fertility Differentials by Religion in Kerala State: A Test of Interaction HypothesesDr. Manoj Alagarajan, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

  2. Social Influence on Childbearing Behavior in a Low Fertility ContextLaura Bernardi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Brown University

  3. Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Influence Fertility Behavior?Thomas DiPrete, Duke University ; S. Philip Morgan, Duke University ; Henriette Engelhardt, Austrian Academy of Sciences ; Hana Pacalova, Duke University

  4. Impact of Labor-Force Attachment on Childbearing in Finland in the 1990sAndres Vikat, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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