Chapter 1 China’s Long Road Toward Below Replacement Level Fertility ··········· 3 1. The Long Road Toward Low Fertility ············································· 5 2. Protracted and Slow Policy Responses ··········································· 17 (Feng WANG, Professor, University of California, Irvine and Fudan University) Chapter 2 Variation in U.S. Fertility: Low and the Not-So-Low, But No Lowest-Low ····································· 31 1. Conceptual and theoretical frameworks ·········································· 32 2. U.S. Fertility Variation ····································································· 39 3. Conclusion ·························································································· 54 (S. Philip MORGAN, Professor & Director, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Chapter 3 The Evolution of Population and Family Policy in Australia ············· 63 1. Population growth, 1788–1945 ······················································· 63 2. Family support policy, 1907~1945 ·················································· 67 3. Population growth, 1946~2012 ························································· 69 4. Family Policy, 1947~2003 ································································ 74 5. Family policy, 2004~2013 ································································ 86 6. Contemporary population debate and policy in Australia ············ 92
Local ID
Research Monographs 2013-31-24
ISBN
978-89-6827-121-2
KIHASA Research Subject Classification
General social security > International social security
Population and family > Responses to fertility decline
Population and family > Responses to population aging
