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

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dc.contributor.authorBinger, Brian R.
dc.contributor.authorHoffman, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorNewell, William H.
dc.coverage.countryCosta Ricaen_US
dc.coverage.regionCentral America & Caribbeanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-28T15:11:44Z
dc.date.available2010-04-28T15:11:44Z
dc.date.issued1976en_US
dc.description.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."en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/5739
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseriesCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CAen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSocial Science Working Papers, no. 109en_US
dc.subjectfertilityen_US
dc.subjectdemographyen_US
dc.subjectpopulation studiesen_US
dc.subject.sectorHistoryen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.titlePopulation Pressure and Fertility Changes in Costa Rica, 1906-1970en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US

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