Friday, March 31 / 12:30 PM - 2:20 PM   •   San Gabriel B

Session 102:
New Ways of Looking at Fertility Measurement Challenges

Chair: William D. Mosher, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
Discussant: Elizabeth H. Stephen, Georgetown University

  1. How Many Children Does It Take to Replace Their Parents? Variation in Replacement Fertility as an Indicator of Child Survival and Gender Status • Robert Engelman, Population Action International ; Elizabeth Leahy, Population Action International

  2. Religion and Fertility in the United States: A Geographical Analysis • Lisa Jordan, University of Colorado at Boulder

  3. Multivariate Analysis of Parity-Progression-Based Measures of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components Using Individual-Level Data • Robert D. Retherford, East West Center ; Naohiro Ogawa, Nihon University ; Rikiya Matsukura, Nihon University

  4. Fertility among Immigrant Women in France: New Data, a New Approach • Laurent Toulemon, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

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