Infant mortality, social networks, and subsequent fertility
Infant mortality, social networks, and subsequent fertility
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DOI：
10.1177/000312240607100206
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发表时间：
2006-04-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Sandberg, J
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作者：
Sandberg, J
这里提出的研究解决了人口统计学文献中与社会学习相关的一个长期存在但以前不受支持的理论命题。这就是，个人应该对生育率降低（增加）的社会邻近其他人的婴儿死亡率降低（更高）做出反应。在更一般的层面上，这个问题直接涉及通过社会互动将死亡率等宏观人口力量的影响转化为微观层面的个人行为。这项研究利用独特的数据，将女性社交网络中的个人识别与这些网络成员的死亡率经历的直接测量相结合，证明了这种联系。尼泊尔山区少数妇女在社交网络中获得的有关婴儿死亡率水平和变化的信息被认为会影响她们的生育节奏。有人认为，所采用的方法对于社会建设的相互过程和更广泛的微观宏观联系的定量分析具有重要意义。
The research presented here addresses a longstanding but previously unsupported theoretical proposition related to social learning in the demographic literature. This is that individuals should respond to lower (higher) infant mortality of socially proximate others with decreased (increased) fertility On a more general level this problem directly concerns the translation of the effects of macro-demographic forces such as mortality into micro-level individual behavior through social interaction. Using unique data that combine identification of individuals belonging to women social networks with direct measurement of these network members' mortality experience, this research demonstrates such a linkage. Information concerning the level and variation in infant mortality available to women from a small Nepalese mountain population in their social networks is seen to influence the tempo of their fertility. It is suggested that the methodology employed has important implications for quantitative analyses of reciprocal processes of social construction and micro-macro linkages more generally.