Economy, Family Change and Fertility in Nepal

摘要 在许多国家，经济发展与较低的 生育率。教育和就业机会 都知道会降低生育率，但家庭的方式 经济发展和生育率之间的中介变化不太好 明白不同的研究假设， 可以通过遗传、生产模式、性别 角色，或婚姻规则;但缺乏系统的数据， 很难区分具体的影响。 调查人员将检查尼泊尔的两个塔芒村庄， 因为它们代表了不同的经济水平 发展通过广泛的实地考察和抽样调查， 将生育率与住户和家庭模式联系起来，并将后者联系起来， 那些村庄的更大的社会组织的变化。数据 将从多个队列中收集，以允许研究者 推断变化是如何发生的。

Abstract In many nations economic development has been associated with lower rates of fertility. Educational and occupational opportunities attendant to development are known to lower fertility, but the way familial changes mediate between economic development and fertility is less well understood. Varying studies have hypothesized that familial changes could impact upon fertility via inheritance, production patterns, gender roles, or marriage rules; but a lack of systematic data has made it difficult to isolate specific effects. The investigators will examine two Tamang villages in Nepal, chosen because they represent markedly different levels of economic development. Through extensive fieldwork and sample surveys they will relate fertility to household and family patterns, and relate the latter to variations in the larger social organization of the villages. Data will be collected from multiple cohorts to permit the investigators to infer how changes have been occuring.