The Influence of Rural-Urban Migration on Migrant's Fertility Behavior in Cameroon
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- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Migration Review
- Vol. 26 (4) , 1416-1447
Abstract
An autoregressive model has been applied to the 1978 Cameroon World Fertility Survey data to test the fertility adaptation hypothesis of rural-urban migration. The fertility differential between rural-urban migrants and rural stayers is very small in Cameroon when compared with that of Korea and Mexico. However, the lack of fertility differentials between rural-urban migrants and rural stayers which are the result of the unique cultural and biosocial parameters of African fertility does not imply a weak fertility adaptation effect.Keywords
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