Abstract

The ageing population phenomenonis becoming a global conundrum. One solution to address this problem is to balance the national demographic structure by boosting a country’s total fertility. The traditional way of studying this issue is to adopt the rational choice and economic behavior approaches. However, the author is of the opinion that such approaches do not fit within Thailand’s context. Thus, the author argues that it would be more appropriate to utilize the Social Institution approach  to  study and shed light on  Thailand’s fertility intention.

Keywords: Fertility Intention, Rational Choice, Economic Behavior, Social institutions.