Thursday, May 3 / 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM   •   Union Square 22

Session 47:
Determinants of Fertility in Asia

Chair: Gavin W. Jones, National University of Singapore

  1. Determinants of Fertility Decline in Asia, 1975-2008 • Rifat Hasan, Harvard School of Public Health ; Kenneth Hill, Harvard University ; Guenther Fink, Harvard School of Public Health

  2. Proximate Determinants and Their Influences on Fertility Reduction in Vietnam • Pradeep Kumar Tripathy, Utkal University ; Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, Vietnam General Statistics Office ; Kailash Chandra Das, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

  3. The Role of Social and Cultural Capital in Fertility Preference and Contraceptive Use • Kriti Vikram, University of Maryland

  4. Fertility Squeeze and Gender Bias: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Birth Planning Policy and Sex Ratio at Birth in China • Juhua Yang, Renmin University of China

  5. Fertility Stalls in the Middle East: The Case of Jordan • Valeria Cetorelli, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ; Tiziana Leone, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

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