A theoretical study has been conducted on the impact of mortality information on the number and quality of children that are produced by a household. The other decision making parameters included changes in the household's preferences, and changes in the efficiency of the household's decision making process. / The analysis indicates that it is neither reasonable nor meaningful to separate the procedural and calculated aspects of the decision making process that determines household fertility behavior. It is shown how changes in preferences, information, and processing ability will interact to determine a household's completed family size. / A recursive model of household fertility behavior is used to test the theory. Household fertility variables are the number of children ever born or the number of pregnancies. The child mortality variable is the number of fetal wastages. The hypotheses are that experienced child mortality would affect the household's fertility behavior in a systematic fashion; that the information imparted by a fetal wastage was non-specific; that fetal wastages would have a minimal impact on the household choice of completed family size; and that fetal wastage would have an appreciable impact on the total fertility level of the household. The associated null hypotheses are consistently rejected across the range of ordinary least squares regression that were performed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: A, page: 0515. / Major Professor: Irvin Sobel. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77937 |
| Contributors | Graniere, Robert John., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 258 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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