Economic Opportunities, Social Change and Fertility Transition in the Eastern Caribbean

这个项目研究人口变化的原因 加勒比地区不同社会之间的增长。 将对圣露西亚和安提瓜的家庭进行调查， 家庭规模高和低的原因，使用调查 调查问卷已被用来研究类似的问题， 巴巴多斯. 测试的假设是，女性拥有较少的 当孩子们从经济依赖中解脱出来时， 孩子们在他们年老的时候，这种独立性来自 从教育制度和职业的变化 结构 这项研究很重要，因为了解 人口高增长的原因将有助于我们控制 它;和从高到低的变化的一般理论 人口增长必须根据当地情况进行测试， 发现它的优点和缺点。 诸岛 加勒比海是一个类似的天然实验室， 不同的社会来检验这个理论。

This project examines the causes for variations in population growth between different societies in the Caribbean. Households in Santa Lucia and Antigua will be surveyed to study the reasons for high and low family sizes,using a survey questionnaire that has been used to study similar issues in Barbados. The hypothesis tested is that women have fewer children when they are freed from financial dependence on their children in their old age, and that this independence comes from changes in the educational sytem and occupational structure. This research is important because understanding the causes of high population growth will help us to control it; and the general theory of the changes from high to low population growth must be tested against local circumstances to discover its strengths and weaknesses. The islands of the Caribbean represent a natural laboratory of similar but different societies in which to test the theory.