The impact of war, famine, and economic decline on marital fertility in ethiopia

Bibliographic Data

ID10971069
AuthorsDavid P Lindstrom (0000-0003-4453-3506, Department of Sociology and Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Maxcy Hall, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, corresponding author), Betemariam Berhanu (Department of Sociology and Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Maxcy Hall, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912)
Year1999
Volume36
Issue2
Pages247-261
Publication date1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2648112
PMID10332615
OpenAlexW2069340225
LanguageEN
Citations received98
References cited34

We examine recent fertility trends in Ethiopia for evidence of short- and long-term responses to famine, political events, and economic decline. We use retrospective data on children ever born from the 1990 National Family and Fertility Survey to estimate trends in annual marital conception probabilities, controlling for women’s demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The results of our analysis provide evidence of significant short-term declines in conception probabilities during years of famine and major political and economic upheaval. In the longer term, marital fertility in both urban and rural areas declined in the 1980s after increasing moderately in the 1970s

Demographic economics · Economics · Famine · Fertility · Geography · Marital status · Population · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Agricultural risk and resilience · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health