Peter McDonald

TL;DR: The authors argued that the transition from very high fertility to replacement-level fertility has been associated with a gradual increase in gender equity primarily within the family itself, and that the further movement to very low fertility is associated with the rapid shift toward high levels of gender equity in individual institutions such as education and market employment, in combination with persistent low-level gender equity within families and family-oriented institutions.

TL;DR: Evidence shows that some social policies can be effective in countering postponement and a growing body of literature shows that female employment and childrearing can be combined when the reduction in work-family conflict is facilitated by policy intervention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that very low levels of fertility in advanced countries can be explained by incoherence between the levels of gender equity applying in different social institutions, such as institutions dealing with people as individuals and families.

TL;DR: Some 30 countries today have fertility rates below 1.5 births per woman and the governments of each of these countries have reported to the United Nations that they consider this rate to be "too low" as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Data from the World Fertility Survey in ten Third World countries are used to test the conclusion, based on a Nigerian study, that material education is important in reducing child mortality and suggest that schooling introduces parents to a global culture of largely Western origin and loosens their ties to traditional cultures.