Population Pressure and Fertility Changes in Costa Rica, 1906-1970

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5739
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Binger, Brian R.; Hoffman, Elizabeth; Newell, William H.
Date:	1976
Agency:	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Series:	Social Science Working Papers, no. 109
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5739
Sector:	History Social Organization
Region:	Central America & Caribbean
Subject(s):	fertility demography population studies
Abstract:	"The demographic history of Costa Rica in the twentieth century is examined in the context of a model of dynamic adjustment to changing child survival probabilities and micro-level population pressure. Micro-level population pressure is viewed as resulting from a couple having children beyond its current optimal family size, given current prices and its income. Cantonal regression analyses for the time periods, 1927-1950, 1951-1953 to 1961-1963, and 1961-1963 to 1970 lend support to the hypothesis that the secular fertility decline in Costa Rica is a dynamic adjustment to high completed family size and increasing child survival probabilities."

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