Jejeebhoy S J
Stud Fam Plann. 1991 Jul-Aug;22(4):217-30.
This study explores linkages between the status of women and fertility over time in Tamil Nadu, India, using sample survey data for currently married women aged 35-44 in 1970 and 1980. The effects of individual indicators of the status of women on fertility are decomposed into effects through each of the proximate variables, notably those affecting marriage duration, marital fertility, and contraception. There is considerable variation in the direction and magnitude of the relationships between the status indicators and fertility behavior and in the relationship to the underlying mechanisms at the two points in time. On balance, the evidence suggests improvements in the status of women come to exert an increasingly negative effect on fertility over the course of demographic transition.
本研究利用1970年和1980年对印度泰米尔纳德邦35 - 44岁已婚妇女的抽样调查数据，探讨了随着时间推移女性地位与生育率之间的联系。女性地位的各项个体指标对生育率的影响被分解为通过每个直接变量产生的影响，特别是那些影响婚姻持续时间、婚内生育和避孕的变量。在这两个时间点上，地位指标与生育行为之间关系的方向和程度，以及与潜在机制的关系存在相当大的差异。总体而言，证据表明，在人口转变过程中，女性地位的改善对生育率的负面影响越来越大。
