Human development index as shown in figure 2 we see

Human Development Index, as shown in Figure 2, we see that after that
point as HDI values continue to rise, Total Fertility Rates:
*also begin to rise, except for Korea and Japan where they keep falling. (At
the highest HDI index values, apparently birth rates can begin to rise again.
However, east Asian societies like Korea and Japan appear to be exceptions
to this "escape route" out of the low-fertility trap.)
-continue to fall, especially fast in Korea and Japan.
-begin to fall, except for Korea and Japan where they keep rising.
-begin to rise, especially fast in Korea and Japan.
Describe the various behavioral responses that Davis documents for
Japanese who felt they were having too many births.
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What was the demographic stimulus that Davis says provoked many different
responses in Japan? Which possible response did they NOT use?
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Does Davis think the Japanese multiphasic response was driven by increasing
Malthusian misery and vice, or by increasing prosperity and opportunity?
Explain.
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Kingsley Davis chose Japan as a place to study falling birth and death rates
because it was:
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*both industrialized and non-Western (Since he thought that these
demographic changes were due to urbanization, industrialization and related
economic forces (rather than to some unique cultural features of the west)
he wanted to find a country that had the economic changes without those
"Western" cultural features, and see whether the changes could happen
there.)
During the 1950s when Davis was observing Japan, he found that:
abortion rates increased and birth rates fell ( Davis lists induced abortions as
one of the "responses" that people used to avoid births, after infant death
rates fell and more babies were surviving.)
After comparative study, Davis found clear statistical evidence showing that
both Japan and Ireland responded to lower infant mortality and rapid
population growth by increases in:
*delayed marriage and emigration (Both countries responded by marrying
later, and large numbers of people also left both countries.)
-induced abortion and contraception
-induced abortion and permanent celibacy
- emigration and permanent celibacy
When comparing abortion rates to birth rates in Japan, Davis explains that
because induced abortions can occur much closer together in time than live
births, we must think of one additional abortion as equivalent to:
*???
How did the trends in births and abortions observed in the 1950s by Davis
compare to trends in these events in the most recent decades?
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substitutes for each other in Japan, but since 1970 both births and abortions
have been falling continuously.)
-During the 1950s birth and abortion totals moved in opposite directions but