The Fertility Transition in Iran
Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal / McDonald, Peter / Hosseini-Chavoshi, Meimanat Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births per woman in 2006. That this, the largest and fastest fall in fertility ever recorded, should have occurred in one of the world’s few Islamic Republics demands explanation. This book, based upon a decade of research is the first to attempt such an explanation. The book documents the prog...