David Reher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 221399 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Reher |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Reher |
| FIRMA | REHER D |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5648-0961 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 920 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
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…
Trends in Living Arrangements Around the World
Most people coreside with other kin in private households while others live alone. The incidence of coresidence with kin and solo living varies noticeably across societies. Scholars have long theorized about the role of modernization and cultural change for living arrangements, suggesting a trend toward the nuclearization of households (coresidence only with primary kin) or solo living as societies attain higher levels of development. There is li…
Las economías familiares dentro de un contexto histórico comparado
El presente artículo pretende arrojar un poco de luz acerca de algunos de los aspectos más importantes de las economías familiares dentro de un contexto histórico. Se ha propuesto una perspectiva analítica que enfatiza los aspectos dinámicos y flexibles de las economías, tanto en el mundo industrial y urbano, como en el rural. Al igual que para Chayanov, la relación de productores y consumidores dentro del núcleo familiar ha sido un factor clave …
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…
Patterns of Literacy in Historic Spain
Historical literacy in Spain is characterised by enormous regional disparities and important differences by sex. This paper addresses these issues, focusing initially on the 1887 census returns and also making use of local empirical data and of in-depth interviews of elderly informants. The goal is to propose an interpretation of historical patterns of literacy based, to a large extent, on the existence of important differences in the perceived v…
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…
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…
Rising Global Levels of Intergenerational Coresidence Among Young Adults
Using census and survey microdata from 69 countries worldwide, in this paper we document levels of intergenerational coresidence over the life course and examine changes in recent decades. We present evidence of a generalized pattern of increase in intergenerational coresidence during the initial decade of this century. This is most evident among people aged 20-30 and, at least in regions such as Europe and North America and in Latin America and …
The Aftermath of the Demographic Transition in the Developed World
Disparities in reproductive behavior visible in the developed world are a long-term implication of the demographic transition. While present at the very outset of the transition, their effects are most visible once childhood mortality loses its relevance as a key constraint on reproduction. These disparities are rooted in the type of society that emerged as the result of the way the historical role of the family and individual in society interact…
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
Living Alone over the Life Course
The increasing proportion of persons living alone has come to be emblematic in many ways of modern Western societies because it represents the importance conceded to the individual and to individual goals at the expense, basically, of the family. Solo living has been interpreted within the context of changing values and preferences, changing personal and conjugal realities, and the changing work contexts so often associated with the Second Demogr…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition
We use a set of linked reproductive histories taken from Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain for the period 1871–1960 to address key issues regarding how reproductive change was linked specifically to mortality and survivorship and more generally to individual agency. Using event-history analysis, this study investigates how the propensity to have additional children was influenced by the number of surviving offspring when reproductive decisions w…
Dimensions of Rational Decision-Making during the Demographic Transition; Aranjuez (Spain) Revisited
A set of linked reproductive histories taken from the Spanish town of Aranjuez during the demographic transition is used to address key issues regarding reproductive change and reproductive choice. This paper builds on the existing literature and especially on the findings first shown in Reher & Sanz-Gimeno (2007) and in Van Poppel et al. (2012) where the links between childhood survival and reproductive decision-making were specified. This paper…
Baby booms, busts, and population ageing in the developed world
The key challenge facing contemporary society is a process of population ageing rooted mainly in past fertility cycles. The goals of the study reported in this paper were (i) to analyse jointly the post-1930s baby boom and the baby bust that followed, (ii) to consider the specific ways this particular combination influenced the process of ageing in different societies, and (iii) to evaluate some possible implications for policy of different histo…
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…
La familia en España pasado y presente
Revista Española De Investigacion Es Sociológicas
Family Ties in Western Europe
IN THE WESTERN WORLD it is not difficult to identify areas where families and family ties are relatively "strong " and others where they are relatively '"weak. " There are regions where traditionally the family group has had priority over the individual, and others where the individual and individual values have had priority over everything else. The strength and resilience of family loyalties, allegiances, and authority can be seen most clearly …
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…
The demographic transition revisited as a global process
With dramatic declines in fertility taking place throughout the world, it is increasingly important to understand the demographic transition as a global process. While this universality was a cornerstone of classic transition theories, for many decades it was largely neglected by experts because fertility in the developing world did not seem to follow the expected pattern. When comparing earlier and more recent transition experiences, important s…
The Baby Boom and Its Causes
This study analyzes the timing, magnitude, and volume of the mid-twentieth century baby boom in European and non-European Western countries. The baby boom is found to have been especially strong in the non-European countries, fairly strong in some European countries, and quite weak in others. While the boom has often been linked with postwar economic growth and the recuperation of births postponed during the Depression era, we argue that this is …
Economic and Social Implications of the Demographic Transition
Living Alone over the Life Course
The increasing proportion of persons living alone has come to be emblematic in many ways of modern Western societies because it represents the importance conceded to the individual and to individual goals at the expense, basically, of the family. Solo living has been interpreted within the context of changing values and preferences, changing personal and conjugal realities, and the changing work contexts so often associated with the Second Demogr…
Rethinking Historical Reproductive Change
A set of linked reproductive histories taken from the Spanish town of Aranjuez between 1871 and 1950 is used to address key issues regarding reproductive change during the demographic transition. These include the role of child survival as a stimulus for reproductive change, the use of stopping and/or spacing strategies to achieve reproductive goals, and the timing of change. Straightforward demographic measures are used and robust results are ac…
Towards long-term population decline
Rising Global Levels of Intergenerational Coresidence Among Young Adults
Using census and survey microdata from 69 countries worldwide, in this paper we document levels of intergenerational coresidence over the life course and examine changes in recent decades. We present evidence of a generalized pattern of increase in intergenerational coresidence during the initial decade of this century. This is most evident among people aged 20-30 and, at least in regions such as Europe and North America and in Latin America and …
Introduction
In search of the ‘urban penalty’
Making use of data on age‐specific mortality and cause of death patterns for rural and urban areas of Spain during the first third of the twentieth‐century, this paper explores the meaning of the ‘urban penalty’ and how it changed over the course of the demographic transition. The author finds ample proof of the existence of this penalty, especially visible among adult males in urban areas, where respiratory and other diseases, many of which were…
Mortality decline and reproductive change during the Dutch demographic transition
According to classic demographic transition theory, mortality change is the key factor that triggers a decline in fertility. Research on this topic has mostly relied on aggregate or time series data. Since fertility is based on the joint decisions of coupl
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 …
Do parents really matter? Child health and development in Spain during the demographic transition
Linked life histories of children and of their parents living in Aranjuez (Spain) between 1870 and 1950 are used to assess the health and well-being of children in terms of the survival status of their parents. The loss of a mother leads to dramatic increases in the mortality of young children, especially during the first 2 years of life, while the loss of a father has a rather limited negative impact. Over time the relative importance of the los…
Back to the basics
Mortality change has traditionally been considered a necessary prerequisite to any long-term reduction in fertility. In Frank Notestein's original statement of the demographic transition theory, societies went from high to low levels of fertility and mortality by means of a path in which mortality declined first and was followed at a shorter or longer lag by fertility. Subsequently Abdel Omran outlined a number of scenarios of demographic transit…
The Aftermath of the Demographic Transition in the Developed World
Disparities in reproductive behavior visible in the developed world are a long-term implication of the demographic transition. While present at the very outset of the transition, their effects are most visible once childhood mortality loses its relevance as a key constraint on reproduction. These disparities are rooted in the type of society that emerged as the result of the way the historical role of the family and individual in society interact…
Estrategias matrimoniales de los inmigrantes en España
En este trabajo se analizan los patrones endogámicos de la población inmigrante en España haciendo uso de la Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes (2007). En primer lugar, se examinan los patrones de matrimonio endogámico y los vínculos entre la migración y el matrimonio. En segundo lugar, se evalúan los factores que influyen en la probabilidad de estar en un matrimonio endogámico. El análisis se centra en las personas casadas inmediatamente antes, du…
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
Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition
We use a set of linked reproductive histories taken from Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain for the period 1871–1960 to address key issues regarding how reproductive change was linked specifically to mortality and survivorship and more generally to individual agency. Using event-history analysis, this study investigates how the propensity to have additional children was influenced by the number of surviving offspring when reproductive decisions w…
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…
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…
Baby booms, busts, and population ageing in the developed world
The key challenge facing contemporary society is a process of population ageing rooted mainly in past fertility cycles. The goals of the study reported in this paper were (i) to analyse jointly the post-1930s baby boom and the baby bust that followed, (ii) to consider the specific ways this particular combination influenced the process of ageing in different societies, and (iii) to evaluate some possible implications for policy of different histo…
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…
The Internal Migration of Immigrants
Research on the mobility and residential patterns of immigrants within receiving countries is abundant. The selective nature of movers and the location of immigrants are issues that have received special attention. Most studies are premised on the supposition that immigrants move only once. However, for a number of immigrants, internal migration is a dynamic process in which more than one movement is involved. This article extends the literature …
Internal Migration Patterns of Foreign-Born Immigrants in a Country of Recent Mass Immigration
This paper extends the literature on the internal migration patterns of the foreign-born by analyzing the situation in Spain, a country affected by recent but very significant migratory flows. We utilize a standard theoretical framework in order to assess the relative importance of human capital, economic, and social capital indicators. To this end, we take advantage of a new micro database, the National Immigrant Survey (Encuesta National de Inm…
Spain, A Historical Enigma
Introduction à l'étude de l'information nominative à partir de la mise sur ordinateur des archives paroissiales espagnoles
Le projet a été réalisé à partir du dépouillement de 37 000 actes relevés dans les registres paroissiaux de la ville de Cuenca (Espagne) entre le milieu du XVIe et le milieu du XIXe siècle. Le but était de reconstruire par ordinateur des familles entières, les registres choisis ayant la grande qualité de fournir 99 % d'informations nominatives. Les méthodes adoptées et les problèmes rencontrés sont sommairement décrits. Est plus particulièrement …
Población y territorio en España. Siglos XIX y XX
Old issues and new perspectives
Les formes traditionnelles de l'analyse historique du ménage, malgré les aperçus considérables qu'elle nous a offerts quant à la nature des systèmes familiaux pré-industriels, ont souvent dépeint d'une façon linéaire ce que I'on pourrait croire être une réalité complexe et souple. Dans une tentative d'étendre notre compréhension de cette réalité, un déplacement des méthodes du champ d'analyse synchronique è l'analyse diachronique est effectué, ba…
Germán Ojeda y José Luis San Miguel
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Household and Family On the Castilian Meseta
The present article presents some of the more salient results of a research project on family and society in the province of Cuenca in Spain between the eighteenth century and 1970. Based fundamentally, though not exclusively, on the Laslett-Hammel classification system, the data gathered reveal the overwhelming predominance of simple family forms throughout the province and in different social groups, as well as the lack of any fundamental evolu…
Marital Fertility and its Determinants in Rural and in Urban Spain, 1887-1930
Based primarily on census data between 1887 and 1920, the present article explores the basic structure of the social and economic factors that influenced marital fertility levels during the early part of the fertility transition in Spain. Multiple regression analysis is applied to ecological models based on separate rural and urban data. While some of the conclusions from the Princeton European Fertility Project have been corroborated, a number o…
Las economías familiares dentro de un contexto histórico comparado
El presente artículo pretende arrojar un poco de luz acerca de algunos de los aspectos más importantes de las economías familiares dentro de un contexto histórico. Se ha propuesto una perspectiva analítica que enfatiza los aspectos dinámicos y flexibles de las economías, tanto en el mundo industrial y urbano, como en el rural. Al igual que para Chayanov, la relación de productores y consumidores dentro del núcleo familiar ha sido un factor clave …
Marriage Patterns in Spain, 1887-1930
Spain displays the greatest diversity of marriage patterns of any European country. This analysis of provincial data considers both the timing of marriage and celibacy from 1887 to 1930. As expected, demographic and economic factors, such as the marriage market and population density, exerted a substantial influence on nuptiality. Cultural patterns, represented here by inheritance practices, also played a pivotal role. Intense nuptiality can be f…
Population et économie dans le Mexique du XVIIIe siècle
Reher (David-Sven). - Population et économie dans le Mexique du xvine siècle : une analyse des fluctuations annuelles. L'article présente une analyse systématique des relations entre les mouvements démographiques à court terme et les fluctuations économiques, en s'appuyant sur les statistiques annuelles de l'état civil et celles du prix du blé, au xvine siècle dans le centre du Mexique. Le recours à un modèle de retards échelonnés sur cinq ans pe…
Town and Country in Pre-industrial Spain
The Decline of Mortality in Europe
This is a review of the literature on the causes of the mortality decline that began in Europe in the eighteenth century. It includes consideration not only of published studies in general but also of papers published in the same volume as this paper. (ANNOTATION)
Town and Country in Pre-Industrial Spain
Town and Country in Pre-Industrial Spain
Has Europe Nationalized
(1993). Has Europe Nationalized?: A Review Essay. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 45-46
The Decline of Mortality in Europe
The Decline of Mortality in Europe
The Decline of Mortality in Europe
Old and New Methods in Historical Demography
Modèles de la Démographie Historique
Wasted Investments
In the present paper, the author argues that both structures and levels of childhood mortality patterns have important implications for family economies in historical and in developing societies. Where mortality is high or when its neonatal component is low relatively to the probabilities of death at higher ages, economies tend to suffer because parental investments in bearing and rearing the children who die are greater. These investments can be…
Old and New Methods in Historical Demography
The history of the family in Spain
The article presents a brief overview of the historical study of the family in Spain, and deals with household work patterns, labor migration, adaptive strategies of households, and property devolution. From a belated and rater timid beginnings in the early part of the 1980s, the growth of this field in recent years has been noteworthy. The articles included in this volume are fitting testimony to the maturity achieved by this discipline in a ver…
Perspectives on the Family in Spain
Family Ties in Western Europe
IN THE WESTERN WORLD it is not difficult to identify areas where families and family ties are relatively "strong " and others where they are relatively '"weak. " There are regions where traditionally the family group has had priority over the individual, and others where the individual and individual values have had priority over everything else. The strength and resilience of family loyalties, allegiances, and authority can be seen most clearly …
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