Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: rural France, 1750-1850

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Rural France

scholarly journals Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior during the Demographic Transition

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia A. Jennings ◽  
Allison R. Sullivan ◽  
J. David Hacker
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Behavior ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Fertility Control ◽  
Population Database ◽  
Marriage Age ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Intergenerational Ties ◽  
Children Ever Born ◽  
New Evidence

New evidence from the Utah Population Database (updp) reveals that at the onset of the fertility transition, reproductive behavior was transmitted across generations—between women and their mothers, as well as between women and their husbands' family of origin. Age at marriage, age at last birth, and the number of children ever born are positively correlated in the data, most strongly among first-born daughters and among cohorts born later in the fertility transition. Intergenerational ties, including the presence of mothers and mothers-in-law, influenced the hazard of progressing to a next birth. The findings suggest that the practice of parity-dependent marital fertility control and inter-birth spacing behavior derived, in part, from the previous generation and that the potential for mothers and mothers-in-law to help in the rearing of children encouraged higher marital fertility.

A Theory of Marital Fertility Transition

1985 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.D. Retherford
Keyword(s):  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Transition

The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 120-144
Author(s):  
Helen Moyle
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Birth Spacing ◽  
Vital Registration ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Vital Registration Data ◽  
English Speaking

The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The paper investigates when marital fertility fell, whether the fall was mainly due to stopping or spacing behaviours, and why it fell at this time. The database used for the research was created by reconstituting the birth histories of couples marrying in Tasmania in 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1890, using digitised 19th century Tasmanian vital registration data plus many other sources. Despite Tasmania’s location on the other side of the world, the fertility decline had remarkable similarities with the historical fertility decline in continental Western Europe, England and other English-speaking countries. Fertility started to decline in the late 1880s and the fertility decline became well established during the 1890s. The fall in fertility in late 19th century Tasmania was primarily due to the practice of stopping behaviour in the 1880 and 1890 cohorts, although birth spacing was also used as a strategy by the 1890 cohort. The findings provide support for some of the prominent theories of fertility transition.

scholarly journals The Onset of Fertility Transition in Pakistan

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
Zeba A. Sathar ◽  
John B. Casterline
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Economic Distress ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programmes

In a Comment published in the Autumn 2000 issue of this journal, Mr Ghulam Soomro1 takes issue with our recent article in Population and Development Review.2 Although Mr Soomro is highly critical of our article, we are pleased that he has read the article carefully and made the effort to write an extended comment. We are not prepared, however, to concede the major points in that Comment. Two major points are made by him. First, that marital fertility decline is a small component of the recent fertility decline in Pakistan, which has been mainly due to postponement of entry to first marriage. Second, that the underlying motivation for fertility change in the 1990s has been economic distress, a consequence in part of the structural adjustment programmes instituted in the late 1980s. However, in the first point, Soomro interprets the demographic data from the past three decades incorrectly and, in the second point, he misrepresents our argument.

Fertility transition on a Greek island

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
VASILIS S. GAVALAS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
National Context ◽  
Aegean Island ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
Greek Island ◽  
The Way

This article explores marital fertility on the Aegean island of Paros based on family-reconstitution data from one main town and one village on the island, namely Naoussa and Kostos. By probing the reproductive behaviour of couples who married between 1894 and 1953 it was found that fertility was still ‘natural’ on the island at the beginning of the twentieth century, while a substantial fertility decline made itself visible only in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The way the population switched from natural to controlled fertility is also explored, as well as the contribution of different socio-economic groups to fertility transition. In the end, an effort is made to place the examined population in a wider European and national context.

scholarly journals SES differences in marital fertility widened during the fertility transition—evidence from global micro-level population data

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Dribe ◽  
Francesco Scalone
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Human Fertility ◽  
Fertility Differentials ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Children Ever Born ◽  
Children Under 5

AbstractThe decline in human fertility during the demographic transition is one of the most profound changes to human living conditions. To gain a better understanding of this transition we investigate the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and marital fertility in different fertility regimes in a global and historical perspective. We use data for a large number women in 91 different countries for the period 1703–2018 (N = 116,612,473). In the pre-transitional fertility regime the highest SES group had somewhat lower marital fertility than other groups both in terms of children ever born (CEB) and number of surviving children under 5 (CWR). Over the course of the fertility transition, as measured by the different fertility regimes, these rather small initial SES differentials in marital fertility widened, both for CEB and CWR. There was no indication of a convergence in marital fertility by SES in the later stages of the transition. Our results imply a universally negative association between SES and marital fertility and that the fertility differentials widened during the fertility transition.

scholarly journals A Re-examination of Fertility Transition in Pakistan

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghulam Yasin Soomro
Keyword(s):  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Adjustment Programme ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programme ◽  
Never Married

Pakistan is passing through an early stage of fertility transition. The slow-paced transition has been analysed in an earlier study done by Sathar and Casterline (1998), which concludes that the increase in the levels of prevalence has accelerated the fertility transition in Pakistan and as a consequence marital fertility has declined. However, this claim is not supported by the relevant statistics. A re-examination reveals that the effect of contraception is the lowest in the decline of fertility. The rise in marriages and breastfeeding has played a significant inhibiting role in the decline of fertility and marital fertility has remained constant. The structural adjustment programme (SAP), initiated in late 1980s, has led to more poverty and the proportion of never-married has increased in Pakistan as revealed by the Population Census 1998. Labour force participation by the females increased in the post-SAP period. The new economic situation appears to be indirectly responsible for the decline of fertility, and it appears to be consistent with the Malthusian macro theory of fertility.

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