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Article: The Fertility Transition in Latin America.(Review)
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- Article from:
- Social Forces
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Edited By Jose Miguel Guzman, Susheela Singh, German Rodriguez, and Edith A. Pantelides. Oxford University Press, 1996. 449 pp. Cloth, $90.00.
Reviewer: DAVID P. LINDSTROM, Brown University
Between the early 1960s and the end of the 1980s the total fertility rate in Latin America dropped from 6.0 children per woman to 3.6. Behind this dramatic decline in aggregate fertility lies a tremendous diversity in national trends as well as important differences among social groups within countries. This edited volume brings together work on the fertility transition in Latin America by leading experts on the demography of the region. Most of the chapters use data ...