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Bring out the relationship between fertility and social structure as viewed by Davis and Blake.

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  • Population Dynamics

Kingsley Davis and Judith Blake, in "Social Structure and Fertility: An Analytic Framework" (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1956), made a deceptively simple claim with large consequences: social structure never affects fertility directly. Norms, institutions and beliefs can influence childbearing only by operating through a closed set of eleven intermediate variables — the biological and…

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