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Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia

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  • Geoff Childs
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein
  • Ben Jiao
  • Cynthia M. Beall

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The own‐children method, an indirect technique, is used to estimate fertility rates for two populations of Tibetans during the 1980s and 1990s: a sample of rural villages in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and exiles living in India and Nepal. The analysis provides evidence that these two populations underwent remarkably similar fertility transitions in both timing and magnitude. In both cases total fertility rates declined from over six births per woman to below the level of replacement in a span of 15 years. The parallel nature of these fertility transitions is intriguing given that, although the populations share a common ethnic identity, they have lived under sharply differing political, economic, and social conditions since the 1960s.

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  • Geoff Childs & Melvyn C. Goldstein & Ben Jiao & Cynthia M. Beall, 2005. "Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 31(2), pages 337-349, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:popdev:v:31:y:2005:i:2:p:337-349
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2005.00068.x
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    1. Andrew Martin Fischer, 2008. "“Population Invasion” versus Urban Exclusion in the Tibetan Areas of Western China," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 34(4), pages 631-662, December.
    2. Donghui Wang & Guangqing Chi, 2017. "Different places, different stories: A study of the spatial heterogeneity of county-level fertility in China," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 37(16), pages 493-526.
    3. Vegard Skirbekk & Marcin Jan Stonawski & Setsuya Fukuda & Thomas Spoorenberg & Conrad Hackett & Raya Muttarak, 2015. "Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 32(1), pages 1-28.

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