SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY IN PAKISTAN (POPULATION).
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Title
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SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY IN PAKISTAN (POPULATION).
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Identifier
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AAI8508708
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identifier
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8508708
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Creator
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KHAWAJA, DILSHAD AHMED.
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Contributor
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Michael Grossman
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Date
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1985
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Economics, General
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Abstract
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Pakistan, with the population of roughly 97 million, is seriously concerned about its rapidly growing birth rate for the last two decades or so. The average woman in Pakistan has more than 6 children and the population growth rate is almost 3 percent a year.;We used the theory of household production function in order to study the fertility behavior of people in Pakistan. The data set used for the thesis, the Pakistan Fertility Survey (PFS) 1975, was available from the World Fertility Survey (WFS) based in London.;This thesis analyzes the potential impact of various socioeconomic factors on fertility. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique was employed to test the effectiveness of above mentioned factors on fertility. Our principal research findings include the following: (1) Family income had a positive effect on family size. Couples who were working in the occupations associated with a high standard of living preferred to have a large family size. (2) Education of both husband and wife incorporated a negative effect on fertility which exhibited the shift of the taste of an educated family away from the quantity of children. (3) Labor force participation of wife displayed a positive association with fertility in the areas where cottage industry is present. However, women working away from home tended to have a small family size. (4) Age of wife at marriage exhibited a negative impact on fertility as expected. (5) Infant/child mortality had a negative influence on fertility in terms of the number of living children. However, it was positively associated with the number of children ever born. (6) The number of living sons was associated with large family size. Families keep on producing children in order to have a large proportion of sons in the family. (7) Parents living in urban areas had a positive impact on fertility compared with those living in rural areas. (8) Couples living in the nuclear family system inclined to have a large family size compared with those living in the extended or joint family system. (9) The impact of contraceptive knowledge and use on fertility behavior was also ambiguous. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Economics
