6- POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

It is when population starts with low growth rates due to high birth rates and high death rates moves through rapid growth stage with high birth rates and low death rates, and later become stable with low-growth rate where both birth and deaths are low.

Answer 1

Demographic Transition

Question 3

When population starts with low growth rates due to high birth rates and high death rates moves through rapid growth stage with high birth rates and low death rates, and later become stable with low-growth rate where both birth and deaths are low.

Answer 3

Demographic Transition

Question 4

Stages of Population Growth?

Answer 4

Stage 1: Low growth due to high death rates and high birth rates.
Stage 2: High growth rates driven by high birth rates and low death rates.
Stage 3: Stable or falling growth rate due to low birth rates and low death rates.

Question 6

What stages of Population Growth?

High growth rates driven by high birth rates and low death rates.

Answer 6

Stage 2

Question 7

What stages of Population Growth?

Stable or falling growth rate due to low birth rates and low death rates.

Answer 7

Stage 3

Question 8

The Causes of Population Growth

Answer 8

• Thomas Malthus - “passion between sexes”.
• Population grow geometrically and food production grows arithmetically. Eventually, birth rate decline because all societies control their birth rates.

Question 9

What stages of Population Growth?

Low growth due to high death rates and high birth rates.

Answer 9

Stage 1

Question 9

He is the one who said “passion between sexes” in the causes of population growth

Answer 9

Thomas Malthus

Question 10

The Economic of Childbearing

Answer 10

1. Fertility should be higher when children earn income and contribute to the household.
2. Reducing infant deaths should lower fertility.
3. Institutionalized social security and pension will lower the need for parents to depend on their children so fewer children are desired by parents.

Question 11

Fertility should be ___ when children earn income and contribute to the household.

Answer 11

Higher

Question 12

Reducing infant deaths should ___ fertility.

Answer 12

lower

Question 13

Institutionalized social security and pension will ___ the need for parents to depend on their children so fewer children are____ by parents,

Answer 13

lower, desired

Question 14

He argued that couples maximize joint total utility function from having children which is a function of the following factors: number of children, child quality (health and education), goods and services, time, income, and cultural constraints.

Answer 14

Gary Becker Theory of Household Economics

Question 15

What is the factors of joint utility factors from Gary Becker, Theory of Household Economics?

Answer 15

argued that couples maximize joint total utility function from having children which is a function of the following factors:
1. number of children,
2. child quality (health and education),
3. goods and services, time, income, and cultural constraints.