Miguel Requena Y Díez De Revenga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1513622 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Miguel Requena Y Díez De Revenga |
| NOMBRES | Miguel Requena Y Díez |
| APELLIDO | De Revenga |
| FIRMA | DE REVENGA M R Y D |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4490-6029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Family Structure and Cognitive Effort
This brief report investigates the association between family structure and the cognitive effort of fifth-grade students in Madrid and Berlin. Although existing studies often link single parenthood to poorer academic outcomes, scant research has investigated its impact on children’s effort. This study utilizes a novel behavioral measure of cognitive effort—rather than survey-based proxies—to fill this knowledge gap. We collected data from 1359 st…
The Decline of Abortion in Spain Over the Last Decade
The study highlights the importance of including changes in the sociodemographic composition of populations in analyses of shifts in abortion rates. It also shows that behavioral changes are not uniform, and that the primary driver of change in abortion rates in Spain is the reduction in abortion rates among the subgroups that had the highest initial rates, leading to a gradual flattening of the differences between women of different ages, educat…
Within-family educational inequalities in 20th-century Spain
This paper assesses the change over time of within-family inequality in the educational outcomes of Spaniards by measuring the effects of birth order on the number of years of formal education attained in families of different sizes. The analysis is based on data from the 1991 Sociodemographic Survey, adopts the perspective of cohort analysis, and looks at those born in the first six decades of the 20th century. The data reveal that the effects o…
Cohort fertility differences between men and women in a developed population
Despite its significance, men’s fertility has been largely overlooked in demographic research. This study seeks to address this gap by conducting a systematic comparative analysis of men’s and women’s fertility using data from the Spanish ECEPOV–2021 survey, a large-scale data set (N = 424,493) from the Spanish national statistical office. Findings indicate that women generally exhibit slightly higher completed cohort fertility rates than men, wi…
Early school leaving, number of siblings and birth order in Spain
This article extends our understanding of early school leaving in developed countries by analysing whether the risk of dropping out depends on family characteristics such as number of siblings and birth order. The study is based on a large sample of the 2011 Spanish census and estimates the relative risks of early school leaving using Poisson regression models. The main findings point out that the risk of dropping out of school is negatively rela…
Differential rates of induced abortion in Spain
Analyzing the variations in induced abortion (IA) rates across different subpopulations in Spain based on country of origin, while considering educational and age composition. Using 2021 Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy register and 2021 Spanish Census microdata, we calculated crude IA rates and age-specific abortion rates. We used age-standardized IA rates (ASIAR) to account for the confounding effect of age composition. We compared seven subp…
Social inequalities, advanced maternal age, and birth weight. Evidence from a population-based study in Spain
To examine whether advanced maternal age (≥40 years) is linked to an increased likelihood of low or high birth weight among native and foreign-born mothers giving birth in Spain. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a novel database provided by the Spanish National Statistics Office which links the 2011 Census with information on individual births (2011-2015) from the Vital Statistics (Natural Movement of the Population). First, multinomia…
Are Younger Students More Likely to Drop Out? Spanish Evidence on the Moderator Role of Gender and Social Origin
Early school leaving (ESL) is considered one of the most serious problems in the functioning of European education systems. In particular, Spain has traditionally exhibited one of the largest ESL rates in Europe. This study aimed to shed light on the role of the month of birth as a factor conditioning the probability of ESL. Using high‐quality census data and a regression discontinuity design, we documented that Spanish males from lower social st…
Latina paradox in Spain? Arrival-cohort effects on the birthweight of newborns of Latina mothers
This study analyses the arrival-cohort effects on the newborn birthweight of Latina women residing in Spain. First, it has been tested whether women of Latin American origin in Spain have an advantage in terms of birth outcomes, a pattern previously documented in the United States and referred to as the ‘Latin American paradox’. Second, it has been examined whether this health advantage of Latina mothers varies by arrival cohort. A novel database…
The effect of the age at school entry on educational attainment and field of study
In countries with a school-entry cutoff date, individuals born right after the cutoff are almost 1 year older than individuals in the same school cohort born right before that date. Abundant research has documented that, as a result of that extra year of maturation and skill accumulation, older students in a cohort outperform their younger peers. It is also well-established that this effect peaks at the initial stages of the educational career an…
Sobre el calendario reproductivo de las mujeres españolas
El autor estudia la formación continua de los trabajadores en la industria del metal de dos regiones desarrolladas del norte de España. La formación de los empleados es utilizada por las empresas para conseguir sus objetivos económicos. De hecho, las empresas donde se forma a los trabajadores están mejor preparadas para abordar los retos de la competitividad. La creación de unas relaciones industriales sólidas hace necesario que la formación de l…
Hogares y familias en la España de los ochenta
Tras revisar la dinámica más reciente de las pautas de organización familiar en las sociedades avanzadas, que ha conducido al progresivo y sistemático debilitamiento de los vínculos de parentesco y la emergencia de las llamadas "familias postnucleares", el contenido del presente artículo se propone evaluar la importancia estructural de las diferentes formas de familia y hogar en la Comunidad de Madrid. Con ese objeto se ha procedido a realizar un…
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century
It is known that historically fertility is correlated between generations of the same family. These links tend to be explained either in terms of the biogenetic determinants of reproduction or by the transmission of intra-familial values associated with reproduction and family life. Less is known about the micro-determinants of these links or about the extent to which the progressive modernization of reproductive outcomes over the past century ha…
Fertility and contraception
New data based on retrospective interviews with older informants enable us to review the history of contraceptive use among Spanish women over much of the twentieth century. This source is unique because it includes cohorts of women whose reproductive lives took place before, during, and after the baby boom. Traditional contraceptive methods (withdrawal and periodic abstinence) were central to the experience of the first set of women, while the l…
Date de référence pour l'entrée à l'école et calendrier des naissances
La date de référence du début de la scolarité des enfants peut inciter les parents à avancer ou à retarder la naissance lorsqu'elle s'approche de cette date. La recherche a mis en évidence cette pratique dans les pays asiatiques aux systèmes éducatifs très compétitifs. Notre analyse d'une base de données exhaustive constituée à partir de registres administratifs ne révèle aucune preuve de ce phénomène en Espagne. La stratification de l'échantillo…
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain
This research presents new evidence on the negative associations of the number of siblings and birth order with years of schooling among female and male Spanish cohorts born in the first six decades of the twentieth century. Special attention is given to unravelling the separate effects of both factors, sib size and birth order. Based on data from the 1991 Spanish Sociodemographic Survey (SDS), findings in Spain support the theoretical framework …
Spain’s Persistent Negative Educational Gradient in Fertility
Censos de población, datos vinculados y el futuro de la investigación social
En el diseño del censo español de 2021 se han abandonado los procedimientos tradicionales de recogida de datos mediante cuestionarios aplicados al universo poblacional y se ha adoptado una nueva estrategia basada en la vinculación de registros administrativos, el uso de grandes datos y el recurso a una encuesta complementaria. Más allá del diseño del nuevo censo, la vinculación de datos administrativos y la integración de otras fuentes está adqui…
Partnership and mortality in mid and late life
The main goal of this paper is to address how different partnership statuses impact the likelihood of death among mature adults and elderly persons in Spain circa 2012 using a massive new dataset of administrative registers linked to census data. First, gross and net effects of having a partner on mortality risks of partnered and non-partnered persons are evaluated; then the characteristics and the importance of selection and protection effects o…
A survey of baby booms and busts in 20th century Spain
This paper presents a new source of microdata on womenâ s reproductive life in 20th century Spain, the Baby Boom and Bust Survey (BBBS). While certain countries have other sources of microdata such as censuses or specific fertility surveys that have been us
Beyond the healthy immigrant paradox
BACKGROUND: The healthy immigrant paradox refers to the unexpected health advantages of immigrant groups settled in host countries. In this population-based study we analyze immigrant advantages in birthweight decomposing differences between infants born to immigrant mothers from specific origins. METHOD: Using publicly available data from Spanish Vital Statistics for the period 2007-2017, differential birthweights among several groups of immigra…
Impact of Socio-economic Status on Low Birthweight
In this population-based study, we explored the relationships between immigration, socio-economic status (SES), and perinatal outcomes. We quantified the effects of SES on birthweight disparities between native and immigrant mothers in Spain. We obtained birth and SES data from the 2011 census and administrative registers for years 2011-2015. The associations between origin, statuses, and the likelihood of low birthweight were estimated using log…
Revisiting mid-twentieth-century fertility shifts from a global perspective
In the developed world, the historic process of fertility decline was interrupted by an unexpected period of increasing fertility called the baby boom. Recent studies suggest that a similar trend change in fertility may have occurred in many less developed nations at approximately the same time. Using cohort fertility data for 26 less developed countries from around the world taken from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (I…
Working apart together
In this article, we explore how the massive incorporation of the foreign-born population into the labour market during the economic expansion in Spain and the subsequent destruction of employment in the period of the economic downturn have contributed to changes in Spanish class structure. Drawing on data from the Labour Force Survey we estimate an entropy-based segregation index in order to assess the extent to which the unevenness of the distri…
Women living alone in later life
This paper compares the determinants of living alone among elderly women in six countries (Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Brazil, Spain, and Sweden) with very different family systems, policy contexts, levels of development, and socio‐economic characteristics. Different factors behind the residential choices of elderly women are estimated by means of logistic regression. Decomposition models are used to assess the extent to which observed diffe…
Living Alone in Later Life
THE PREVALENCE OF living alone during later life varies widely throughout the world, though everywhere its social relevance has grown substantially in recent decades. This living arrangement, more widespread among women than men aged over 65, is one of the most visible characteristics of societal aging currently underway. Explaining residential options among older persons and the different strategies implemented in societies of diverse cultural a…
Persistent Inequalities? Expansion of Education and Class Inequality in Italy and Spain
The paper analyses inequalities in educational outcomes (IEO) by class of family of origin in Italy and Spain for five 10-year cohorts born from 1920 to 1969, using the cumulative logit (ordinal regression) model. In both countries the question is whether, as education expanded, the class IEO's remained stable or diminished. The dominant view in the 1990s was that, with the exception of a few countries, inequalities persisted. In the current deca…
España en la encrucijada? Consideraciones sobre el cambio de ciclo migratorio
El presente trabajo revisa la experiencia migratoria en España durante los últimos ciento cincuenta años para contextualizar históricamente la reciente explosión de inmigrantes que se ha producido a la vuelta del nuevo siglo y el cambio de ciclo migratorio que el país ha experimentado con ocasión de la actual crisis económica. El análisis del calendario, las características principales y los factores explicativos básicos de la reciente explosión …
The National Immigrant Survey of Spain. A new data source for migration studies in Europe
Spain has recently become the destination for large numbers of international migrants and now ranks as a key focal point for international migration in Europe. Currently, approximately one in ten residents in Spain are foreigners, up more than tenfold
The mid-twentieth century fertility boom from a global perspective
During the central decades of the twentieth century there is ample though often indirect evidence that a significant rise in fertility took place in much of the world. In some countries with historic demographic transitions this trend change has been called the baby boom. Elsewhere it has often been called the demographic explosion. Seldom has it been addressed from a global perspective. The main goal of this paper is to study these shifts compar…
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
This article explores the effects of the increasing educational attainment of several cohorts of women born during the first half of the twentieth century on the historical change in their fertility. With data from the 1991 Spanish Census, we focus on the reproductive trajectories of women in these cohorts based on parity progression and marriage patterns. The conclusions point to a clear negative association between education and fertility on on…
The Secularization of Spanish Society
This paper offers an empirical analysis of one of the fundamental dimensions of religious change in Spain in recent years: religious practice. The specification of the secularization thesis foresees, in the case of societies with widespread religious homogeneity and with a high level of interdependence between Church and State, and in particular for Catholic societies such as Spain, a relevant drop in the levels of religious affiliation and pract…
Changing Patterns of European Family Life. A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries
Part I: Theoretical Background 1. Comparative Focus and Considerations Jens Qvortrup 2. Theories and Ideologies of Family Functions, Gender Relations and Human Reproduction Edmund Dahlstrom 3. Ideologies of Family Forms: Towards Diversity Rhona Rap 4. Place of Family in Complex Society Giovanni Sgritta Part II: Reproduction and Caregiving 5. Historical Changes in Family Reproductive Patterns Angelo Saporiti 6. Caregiving Kari Waerness 7. Socialis…
Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain
Studies of childlessness in the twentieth century in developed countries have underscored the existence of diverging trends with higher levels among cohorts born at the beginning of the twentieth century, lower ones among the baby boom cohorts and finally higher ones for cohorts born after the Second World War. Spain also shows these basic trends, but the fit is not identical to that of other countries, with differences affecting the timing of tr…
Seeding the gender revolution
In Europe and the United States, women's educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the twentieth century. The expected implication was fertility decline and postponement, whereas in fact the opposite occurred. We analyse trends in the quantum of cohort fertility among the baby boom generations in 15 countries and how these relate to women's education. Over the 1901-45 cohorts, the proportion of parents with exactly two child…
Las familias inmigrantes en España
El espectacular crecimiento de la inmigración internacional en España en los últimos años ha producido notables hallazgos sobre los comportamientos familiares de los inmigrantes asentados en nuestro país. Poco sabemos, sin embargo, de las formas familiares de convivencia de los inmigrantes o del proceso de reagrupación familiar. En este artículo nos proponemos suplir estas carencias a partir de los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 200…
Sobre el calendario reproductivo de las mujeres españolas
El autor estudia la formación continua de los trabajadores en la industria del metal de dos regiones desarrolladas del norte de España. La formación de los empleados es utilizada por las empresas para conseguir sus objetivos económicos. De hecho, las empresas donde se forma a los trabajadores están mejor preparadas para abordar los retos de la competitividad. La creación de unas relaciones industriales sólidas hace necesario que la formación de l…
Women living alone in later life
This paper compares the determinants of living alone among elderly women in six countries (Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Brazil, Spain, and Sweden) with very different family systems, policy contexts, levels of development, and socio‐economic characteristics. Different factors behind the residential choices of elderly women are estimated by means of logistic regression. Decomposition models are used to assess the extent to which observed diffe…
Was There a Mid-20 Th Century Fertility Boom in Latin America
The historic process of fertility decline was interrupted during the central decades of the 20 th century with an unexpected period of increasing fertility that has been called the baby boom. Normally it is considered a phenomenon exclusive to countries participating in the historic demographic transition. A recent study suggests that a similar trend change in fertility may have also taken place in a few developing nations at approximately the sa…
Partnership and mortality in mid and late life
The main goal of this paper is to address how different partnership statuses impact the likelihood of death among mature adults and elderly persons in Spain circa 2012 using a massive new dataset of administrative registers linked to census data. First, gross and net effects of having a partner on mortality risks of partnered and non-partnered persons are evaluated; then the characteristics and the importance of selection and protection effects o…
Long-term trends in living alone in later life in the United States, 1850-2015
Recent research has looked at living alone among the elderly both within the context of the developed world and globally from a comparative perspective. To date this research has contributed relatively little to our understanding of patterns of change over time, an issue of major importance for the prediction of future trends. We propose now to look at change over time using a long-term historical perspective on living alone based on rich data fr…
Going It Alone in Later Life
This article compares the determinants of living alone in later life in Spain and Sweden, two countries with relatively similar levels of economic development from a global view point but different family systems and institutional contexts. With microdata coming from census (Spain) and linked administrative registers (Sweden), logistic regression techniques, including a nonlinear regression-based decomposition of differences between, are used to …
Divided families among Latin American immigrants in Spain
International migratory movements tend to produce the reality of divided families that are located in at least two different places. The literature on divided or transnational families and family reunification movements has shown how the socio-demographic determinants in origin and the socio-economic and institutional factors in destination drive these processes. Assuming that migratory movements are the result to a large extent of specifically f…
Secularization in Poland and Spain after the democratic transition
The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which the evolution of religiosity in Spain and Poland in their post-democratic transition periods has been affected by the process of generational replacement. For Spain data are drawn from several surveys carried out by the Spanish Centre for Sociological Studies (CIS) between 1980 and 1996. For Poland the data come from the Polish General Social Survey and ISSP covering 1992-2008. Res…
Tres décadas de cambio social en España
Spain’s Persistent Negative Educational Gradient in Fertility
Revisiting mid-twentieth-century fertility shifts from a global perspective
In the developed world, the historic process of fertility decline was interrupted by an unexpected period of increasing fertility called the baby boom. Recent studies suggest that a similar trend change in fertility may have occurred in many less developed nations at approximately the same time. Using cohort fertility data for 26 less developed countries from around the world taken from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (I…
Los Depredadores Audiovisuales. Juventud Urbana y Cultura de Masas
Birth order, sibling size and educational attainment in twentieth century Spain
This research presents new evidence on the negative associations of the number of siblings and birth order with years of schooling among female and male Spanish cohorts born in the first six decades of the twentieth century. Special attention is given to unravelling the separate effects of both factors, sib size and birth order. Based on data from the 1991 Spanish Sociodemographic Survey (SDS), findings in Spain support the theoretical framework …
Censos de población, datos vinculados y el futuro de la investigación social
En el diseño del censo español de 2021 se han abandonado los procedimientos tradicionales de recogida de datos mediante cuestionarios aplicados al universo poblacional y se ha adoptado una nueva estrategia basada en la vinculación de registros administrativos, el uso de grandes datos y el recurso a una encuesta complementaria. Más allá del diseño del nuevo censo, la vinculación de datos administrativos y la integración de otras fuentes está adqui…
Effect of metabolic control with insulin on plasma von willebrand factor activity (Viiir
Las representaciones colectivas de los pueblos indoeuropeos
Se analiza la relación entre la estructura mitológica y el pensamiento social y religioso entre los pueblos indoeuropeos, basándose en los documentos literarios, la Antropología y las religiones comparadas. Esta estructura indica que únicamente se consigue una sociedad ordenada si están presentes los siguientes factores : una administración político-religiosa, la conquista militar y la producción material. Se estudia el reflejo de esta estructura…
Los Depredadores Audiovisuales. Juventud Urbana y Cultura de Masas
Hogares y familias en la España de los ochenta
Tras revisar la dinámica más reciente de las pautas de organización familiar en las sociedades avanzadas, que ha conducido al progresivo y sistemático debilitamiento de los vínculos de parentesco y la emergencia de las llamadas "familias postnucleares", el contenido del presente artículo se propone evaluar la importancia estructural de las diferentes formas de familia y hogar en la Comunidad de Madrid. Con ese objeto se ha procedido a realizar un…
Changing Patterns of European Family Life. A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries
Part I: Theoretical Background 1. Comparative Focus and Considerations Jens Qvortrup 2. Theories and Ideologies of Family Functions, Gender Relations and Human Reproduction Edmund Dahlstrom 3. Ideologies of Family Forms: Towards Diversity Rhona Rap 4. Place of Family in Complex Society Giovanni Sgritta Part II: Reproduction and Caregiving 5. Historical Changes in Family Reproductive Patterns Angelo Saporiti 6. Caregiving Kari Waerness 7. Socialis…
Sobre el calendario reproductivo de las mujeres españolas
El autor estudia la formación continua de los trabajadores en la industria del metal de dos regiones desarrolladas del norte de España. La formación de los empleados es utilizada por las empresas para conseguir sus objetivos económicos. De hecho, las empresas donde se forma a los trabajadores están mejor preparadas para abordar los retos de la competitividad. La creación de unas relaciones industriales sólidas hace necesario que la formación de l…
El suicidio juvenil
Conducta social como intercambio
Considerar la conducta social como un intercambio de bienes puede clarificar las relaciones entre cuatro cuerpos de teoría: la psicología conductista, la economía, las proposiciones sobre la dinámica de la influencia y las proposiciones sobre la
Formación de la pareja y fecundidad
El presente trabajo establece que la reciente caída de la fecundidad de las mujeres en las sociedades con comportamientos demográficos sudeuropeos se debe en muy buena medida a los problemas relacionados con la formación de matrimonios y parejas; a su vez, las dificultades que rodean el establecimiento de matrimonios y parejas y, por ende, de nuevas unidades familiares, mantienen una estrecha relación con los obstáculos que se han encontrado los …
Raymond Boudon, Raison, bonnes raisons. París, Presses Universitaires de France, 2003
The Secularization of Spanish Society
This paper offers an empirical analysis of one of the fundamental dimensions of religious change in Spain in recent years: religious practice. The specification of the secularization thesis foresees, in the case of societies with widespread religious homogeneity and with a high level of interdependence between Church and State, and in particular for Catholic societies such as Spain, a relevant drop in the levels of religious affiliation and pract…
El papel de la educación en la transición demográfica de las mujeres madrileñas
El presente trabajo examina desde una perspectiva longitudinal la influencia del creciente nivel educativo de varias cohortes de mujeres madrileñas nacidas en la primera mitad del siglo XX en el cambio histórico de sus pautas reproductivas. Los datos que sirven de base empírica a este artículo proceden del Censo de Población y Viviendas de 1991 y hacen posible un análisis de los efectos de la educación en las trayectorias reproductivas de las muj…
Tres décadas de cambio social en España
Persistent Inequalities? Expansion of Education and Class Inequality in Italy and Spain
The paper analyses inequalities in educational outcomes (IEO) by class of family of origin in Italy and Spain for five 10-year cohorts born from 1920 to 1969, using the cumulative logit (ordinal regression) model. In both countries the question is whether, as education expanded, the class IEO's remained stable or diminished. The dominant view in the 1990s was that, with the exception of a few countries, inequalities persisted. In the current deca…
The National Immigrant Survey of Spain. A new data source for migration studies in Europe
Spain has recently become the destination for large numbers of international migrants and now ranks as a key focal point for international migration in Europe. Currently, approximately one in ten residents in Spain are foreigners, up more than tenfold
España en la encrucijada? Consideraciones sobre el cambio de ciclo migratorio
El presente trabajo revisa la experiencia migratoria en España durante los últimos ciento cincuenta años para contextualizar históricamente la reciente explosión de inmigrantes que se ha producido a la vuelta del nuevo siglo y el cambio de ciclo migratorio que el país ha experimentado con ocasión de la actual crisis económica. El análisis del calendario, las características principales y los factores explicativos básicos de la reciente explosión …
Las familias inmigrantes en España
El espectacular crecimiento de la inmigración internacional en España en los últimos años ha producido notables hallazgos sobre los comportamientos familiares de los inmigrantes asentados en nuestro país. Poco sabemos, sin embargo, de las formas familiares de convivencia de los inmigrantes o del proceso de reagrupación familiar. En este artículo nos proponemos suplir estas carencias a partir de los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 200…
Divided families among Latin American immigrants in Spain
International migratory movements tend to produce the reality of divided families that are located in at least two different places. The literature on divided or transnational families and family reunification movements has shown how the socio-demographic determinants in origin and the socio-economic and institutional factors in destination drive these processes. Assuming that migratory movements are the result to a large extent of specifically f…
Secularization in Poland and Spain after the democratic transition
The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which the evolution of religiosity in Spain and Poland in their post-democratic transition periods has been affected by the process of generational replacement. For Spain data are drawn from several surveys carried out by the Spanish Centre for Sociological Studies (CIS) between 1980 and 1996. For Poland the data come from the Polish General Social Survey and ISSP covering 1992-2008. Res…
Religiosity and politics in Spain and Poland
The aim of this study is to compare how the Catholic Church’s involvement in politics under authoritarian rule in Spain and Poland impacted on religiosity in those countries after the transition to democracy. The Catholic Church was a key political actor during the Franco regime in Spain and communist rule in Poland. However, the nature of its political involvement in each case was quite different: while in Spain the Catholic Church legitimized t…
The mid-twentieth century fertility boom from a global perspective
During the central decades of the twentieth century there is ample though often indirect evidence that a significant rise in fertility took place in much of the world. In some countries with historic demographic transitions this trend change has been called the baby boom. Elsewhere it has often been called the demographic explosion. Seldom has it been addressed from a global perspective. The main goal of this paper is to study these shifts compar…
Was There a Mid-20 Th Century Fertility Boom in Latin America
The historic process of fertility decline was interrupted during the central decades of the 20 th century with an unexpected period of increasing fertility that has been called the baby boom. Normally it is considered a phenomenon exclusive to countries participating in the historic demographic transition. A recent study suggests that a similar trend change in fertility may have also taken place in a few developing nations at approximately the sa…
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
This article explores the effects of the increasing educational attainment of several cohorts of women born during the first half of the twentieth century on the historical change in their fertility. With data from the 1991 Spanish Census, we focus on the reproductive trajectories of women in these cohorts based on parity progression and marriage patterns. The conclusions point to a clear negative association between education and fertility on on…
Living Alone in Later Life
THE PREVALENCE OF living alone during later life varies widely throughout the world, though everywhere its social relevance has grown substantially in recent decades. This living arrangement, more widespread among women than men aged over 65, is one of the most visible characteristics of societal aging currently underway. Explaining residential options among older persons and the different strategies implemented in societies of diverse cultural a…
Seeding the gender revolution
In Europe and the United States, women's educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the twentieth century. The expected implication was fertility decline and postponement, whereas in fact the opposite occurred. We analyse trends in the quantum of cohort fertility among the baby boom generations in 15 countries and how these relate to women's education. Over the 1901-45 cohorts, the proportion of parents with exactly two child…
Sociology (34 obras) · Demography (26 obras) · Population (26 obras) · Geography (25 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Economics (23 obras) · Demographic economics (17 obras) · Demography (13 obras) · Fertility (13 obras) · Medicine (13 obras)