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Title: Tibetan Fertility Transitions: Comparisons with Europe, China, and India
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Geoff Childs
One Sentence Summary: A study of the fertility transitions that have recently occurred in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and among Tibetan exiles living in South Asia.

Description: Creator's Description: This paper focuses on fertility transitions that have recently occurred in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and among Tibetan exiles living in South Asia. The Tibetan cases are compared with fertility transitions in China, India, and historical Europe with respect to (1) the social and demographic forces that shaped pre-transitional levels of fertility, (2) frequencies of marriage and non-marital fertility, (3) the timing, duration, and magnitude of the fertility transitions, and (4) the impact that fertility transitions have had on sex ratios. The analysis shows that fertility in pre-transitional Tibetan societies was more similar to Europe than China or India, due to factors related to the family system and the limitations it imposed on marriage; that although Tibetan fertility transitions started comparatively late in time, they proceeded at an extraordinarily rapid pace; and that unlike in China and India, fertility transitions among Tibetans have not been accompanied by increasingly skewed sex ratios that favor males.
Publisher: Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Normalized publisher place: Charlottesville, VA
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.thlib.org
Published Date: 2008-12
URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/04/childs/
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- Journals Focused on Regions -- Tibet -- JIATS -- Issue 4 (December 2008)
Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- THL-Hosted Online Journals -- JIATS -- Issue 4 (December 2008)
Cultural Coverage: Tibet
Language: English
Source URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/issue04/
Source: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Source Editor: David Germano
José I. Cabezón
Source Type: Journal
Source Number: 4
ISBN/ISSN: 1550-6363

Means of availability: Also available as a PDF at http://texts.thlib.org/static/reprints/jiats/04/childsJIATS_04_2008.pdf
Access rights: Public domain
Format: Online resource
Media type: Text
Resource Type: Article
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Date Of Record Creation: 2009-04-16 02:43:05
Date Record Checked: 2009-04-16
Date Last Modified: 2009-04-16 02:44:16
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