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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Papers." National Research Council. 1999. The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6475.
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Appendix Workshop Papers

KATHLEEN CARLEY

"Learning and Using New Ideas: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective"

ANTHONY CARTER

"Culture and Communication: Anthropological Perspectives on Diffusion and Social Processes"

JOHN CLELAND

"Potatoes and Pills: An Overview of Innovation-Diffusion Contributions to Explanations of Fertility Decline"

STEVEN DURLAUF AND JAMES WALKER

"Social Interactions and Fertility Transitions"

BARBARA ENTWISLE AND JENNY GODLEY

"Village Networks and Patterns of Contraceptive Choice"

NOREEN GOLDMAN, ANNE PEBLEY, AND MEGAN BECKETT

"Diffusion of Ideas About Personal Hygiene and Contamination in Poor Countries: Evidence from Guatemala"

ROBERT HORNIK AND EMILE McANANY

"Mass Media and Fertility Change"

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Papers." National Research Council. 1999. The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6475.
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RON LESTHAEGHE AND CAMILLE VANDERHOEFT

"Ready, Willing, and Able: A Conceptualization of Transitions to New Behavioral Forms"

PETER MARSDEN

"Diffusion Through Social Networks"

KAREN OPPENHEIM MASON AND STEVEN SINDING

"Diffusion Theories and Population Policy"

ALBERTO PALLONI

"Diffusion in Sociological Analysis: How Useful Is It for the Study of Fertility and Mortality?"

JOSEPH POTTER, RENATO ASSUNCAO, SUZANA CAVENAGHI, AND ANDRE CAETANO

"The Spread of Television and Fertility Decline in Brazil: A Spatial-Temporal Analysis, 1970-1991"

EDUARDO RIOS-NETO, PAULA MIRANDA-RIBEIRO, AND JOSEPH POTTER

"I Saw It on TV: Television and Demographic Change in Brazil"

SUSAN WATKINS AND DENNIS HODGSON

"From Mercantilists to Neo-Malthusians: The International Population Movement and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya"

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Papers." National Research Council. 1999. The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6475.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Papers." National Research Council. 1999. The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6475.
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This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, organized by the Committee on Population of the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, D.C., January 29-30, 1998. Fourteen papers were presented at the workshop; they represented both theoretical and empirical perspectives and shed new light on the role that diffusion processes may play in fertility transition. These papers served as the basis for the discussion that is summarized in this report.

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