Editors:
- Analyzes allocative patterns of public and private transfers of economic resources between the elderly and children
- Incorporates both macro and micro data regarding declining fertility
- Brings together social and natural scientists in examining the phenomenon of low fertility and sexual and reproductive health
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Studies in Population (ISIP, volume 11)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a unique blend of social and biomedical sciences in the field of low fertility and reproductive health. It offers a significant contribution to understanding the determinants of low fertility mostly in East Asia, including an assessment of the effectiveness of policies that aim to raise fertility. It introduces new analytical tools and methods and shares application of innovative approaches to analyzing cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data and macro socioeconomic data to shed light on changing mechanisms of low fertility in the context of reproductive health.
The volume introduces the demographic dividend into the study of fertility, analyzes possible impact of population ageing on the amount of resources allocated to child rearing, i.e. the so called "crowding effect" in social care and public spending between the elderly and children. The book also tests the Low Fertility Trap (LFT) hypothesis, a new important theory regarding fertility trends.
The book focuses on East Asia which is numerically large but relatively under-researched with regard to issues covered in various chapters. The relevance of the volume, however, goes beyond countries in East Asia.
The book breaks new grounds and reveals little known facts regarding the influence of endocrine disruptors on male fertility through falling sperm counts, the phenomenon of marital sexlessness and about the sexual behavior of adolescents in East Asia.
Keywords
- Assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
- Cost of children
- Cost of the elderly
- Day care centers
- Demographic dividend into the study of fertility
- Endocrine disrupters on male fertility
- Falling sperm count
- Family policies
- Gender roles
- Health care utilization
- Intergenerational transfers
- Low fertility trap (LFT) hypothesis
- Low-fertility countries
- Marital sexlessness
- National Transfer Accounts (NTA)
- Possible impact of population ageing
- Reproductive health
- Resources allocated to child bearing
- Sexual behaviours of adolescents
- Understanding the determinants of low fertility
Editors and Affiliations
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Population Research Institute and College of Economics, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Naohiro Ogawa
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Department of Global Health and Population Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Iqbal H. Shah
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Low Fertility and Reproductive Health in East Asia
Editors: Naohiro Ogawa, Iqbal H. Shah
Series Title: International Studies in Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9226-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9225-7Published: 23 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1579-7Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9226-4Published: 07 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1871-0395
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 220
Topics: Demography, Public Health, Population Economics, Sexual Behavior, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging