Theories of contraception and fertility are currently dominated by economic and cultural arguments. A demographic perspective can usefully expand these theories through “addition,” “explication,” and “reconciliation.” The addition is about drawing attention to salient demographic forces that have previously been underconsidered whether these forces operate at the macro, meso, or microlevels. Explication is about adding explanatory flesh to proximate economic or cultural influences, which can themselves result from more fundamental demographic changes. Finally, reconciliation is about moving beyond an “economy ‐OR‐ culture” binary to seek complementarities and synergies. Decomposition methods inspired by a demographic perspective help such reconciliation. They offer handy empirical tools for assessing how economic, cultural, and demographic forces jointly shape changes in national rates of contraception, and how their contributions may change over time. Thus, demographic perspectives are not offered as a substitute but as an avenue to integrate cultural, economic, and demographic perspectives and to foster richer contextual analysis.

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超越经济学和文化：避孕理论的人口学观点


避孕和生育理论目前由经济和文化争论主导。人口学观点可以通过“添加”、“解释”和“和解”有效地扩展这些理论。这一补充是为了引起人们对以前被忽视的突出人口力量的关注，无论这些力量是在宏观、中观还是微观层面发挥作用。解释是关于为邻近的经济或文化影响添加解释性内容，这些影响本身可以由更根本的人口变化产生。最后，和解是关于超越“经济或文化”的二元对立，寻求互补和协同作用。受人口学观点启发的分解方法有助于这种和解。它们为评估经济、文化和人口力量如何共同影响全国避孕率的变化，以及它们的贡献如何随着时间的推移而变化提供了方便的实证工具。因此，人口观点不是作为替代品提供的，而是作为整合文化、经济和人口观点并促进更丰富的背景分析的途径。