A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development With Fertility?

被引：32

作者：

Harttgen, Kenneth ^{[1
]}

Vollmer, Sebastian ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, CLD, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

[2] Univ Gottingen, Dept Econ, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany

来源：

DEMOGRAPHY | 2014年 / 51卷 / 01期

关键词：

Fertility; Human development index; Education; Health; Standard of living;

D O I：

10.1007/s13524-013-0252-y

中图分类号：

C921 [人口统计学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Myrskyla 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.

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页码：173 / 184

页数：12