Community-level education accelerates the cultural evolution of fertility decline

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1779, 2014, Pages

  Colleran, Heidi ^a   Jasienska, Grazyna ^b   Nenko, Ilona ^b,c   Galbarczyk, Andrzej ^b   Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community effects; Cultural transmission; Education; Fertility decline

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; CULTURAL CHANGE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; FAMILY STRUCTURE; FEMALE EDUCATION; FERTILITY; MODERNIZATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY EFFECTS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY DECLINE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNITY EFFECTS; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; FERTILITY DECLINE;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

POLAND;

EID: 84900855540     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2732     Document Type: Article

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