Transition & fertility

Question 1

Kirk. (1996). Demographic transition theory.

Answer 1

Gist: Societies that experience modernization progress from a pre-modern regime of high fertility & high mortality to a post-modern one of low fertility & low mortality. To some, it’s the central preoccupation in demography. To others, it is a non-theory to be dismissed as unproven.

Question 2

Bryant. (2007). Theories of fertility decline and the evidence from development indicators.

Answer 2

SEE SECTION UNDER FERTILITY THEORIES.