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Less advanced sectors in the Latin American fertility transition

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  • Chackiel, Juan
  • Schkolnik, Susana

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Demographic change in Latin America has been driven by the behaviour of the middle and upper strata. Given that fertility and mortality in these groups are now relatively low, future changes will mainly come from the behaviour of less advanced sectors. This paper analyses the contribution of these less advanced groups to the decline in fertility, distinguishing between the "distribution effect" and the "rates effect". In less advanced sectors the desired number of children is lower than the actual number, with early marriage and limited use of modern contraceptives continuing to be the rule. Even so, these groups have entered the demographic transition. A number of countries have recently seen falls in their fertility rates due to the contribution of women with low levels of education: in the late transition countries behaviour is heterogeneous, while in the advanced transition countries the greatest contribution is being made by women with primary education.

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  • Chackiel, Juan & Schkolnik, Susana, 2004. "Less advanced sectors in the Latin American fertility transition," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), August.
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    1. Andrés F. Castro Torres & Ewa Batyra & Mikko Myrskylä, 2021. "Income inequality and increasing dispersion of the transition to first birth in the Global South," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2021-009, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    2. Andrés F. Castro Torres & Edith Y. Gutierrez Vazquez & Tereza Bernardes, 2022. "Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2022-003, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    3. Andrés Felipe Castro Torres, 2021. "Analysis of Latin American Fertility in Terms of Probable Social Classes," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 37(2), pages 297-339, April.
    4. Andrés F. Castro Torres, 2020. "Analysis of Latin American fertility change in terms of probable social classes," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2020-001, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    5. Torres, Miguel & Hofman, André A., 2008. "ECLAC thinking in the CEPAL Review (1976-2008)," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), December.
    6. Huenchuan, Sandra, 2010. "Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies," Libros de la CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), number 40050 edited by Eclac.

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