title: A reversal in the relationship of human development with fertility?
abstract: Myrskylä et al. (2009) found that the relationship between the human development index (HDI) and the total fertility rate (TFR) reverses from negative (i.e., increases in HDI are associated with decreases in TFR) to positive (i.e., increases in HDI are associated with increases in TFR) at an HDI level of 0.86. In this article, we show that the reversal in the HDI-TFR relationship is robust to neither the UNDP's recent revision in the HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard-of-living, and health subindices.
authors.affiliation: Nadel, ETH Zürich, Clausiusstr. 37, CLD, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland, harttgen@nadel.ethz.ch.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harttgen
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vollmer
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate / Q000639:trends*; D019049:Developed Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors