PAM 2030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fecundity, Precondition

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Policy, Analysis and Management
• Course: PAM 2030
• Professor: Lichter

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Fertility transition: the shift from high fertility, characterized by only minimal individual deliberate control, to low- perhaps very low fertility, which is entirely under a woman"s control. Difference from reproductive potential: how fertile a woman is. Fertility is comprised of two parts: biological and social. Increased levels of fat among girls in the united states appear to have stimulated hormonal change and induced puberty in an increasing proportion of preteens. If a society is going to replace itself, an average of at lest 2 children for every woman must survive long enough to be able to produce more children. The precondition for a decline in fertility the acceptance of calculated choice as a valid element in martial fertility the perception of advantages from reduced fertility the knowledge and mastery of effective techniques of control. Exogenous factor: reasons that are often beyond the control of the average person. Endogenous factor: rational calculation of the costs and benefits to himself or herself.