Marco Breschi
Biographic Data
| ID | 127964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Breschi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Breschi |
| SIGNATURE | BRESCHI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sassari |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9025-2487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany
Landed vs landless: a poor interpretative framework of demographic patterns • Land access is associated with specific demographic mechanisms • Control over marriage and selective migration as regulators of household size • Higher vulnerability and sensitiveness of day laborers to short-term stress In pre-industrial rural Italy, the disparities among smallholders, sharecroppers, and day laborers were starkly defined by their unequal access to land…
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)
This article addresses the topic of marriage seasonality in Italy during the early 19th century. Our goal is to explore the links between the seasonal distribution of weddings and the country’s various territorial contexts. By doing so, we aim to deepen our understanding of how marriage practices intersected with environmental, economic, and religious factors. The data are collected at the municipal level from the Napoleonic Civil Registers in th…
Amour à vendre” in Paris: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Grain Price and Sex Work in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The older, the wiser and also the less innovative? An empirical analysis of the relationship between population aging and innovativeness
Entrepreneurship is generally considered the engine of growth, given its role in introducing innovations into the economic system. Developed countries have already become a victim of rapid aging of their populations, while the similar trend has just started in developing countries. The previous literature has suggested that aging and nascent entrepreneurship are negatively related. This study investigated the relationship between aging and innova…
Chest circumference and structural and short-term changes: A study of the Italian military call-up registers from 1881 to 1909
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the utility of chest circumference measurements as a proxy for the socioeconomic characteristics of past populations. Our analysis is based on over 80,000 military medical examinations relating to Friuli (north-eastern Italy), recorded from 1881 to 1909. Chest circumference can be used to describe changes in standard of living, but also seasonal variations in food intakes and physical activities. The findin…
Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness: Evidence from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in a group of Italian populations
The role of maternal nutrition in affecting offspring fertility, through alteration of foetal programming, has been demonstrated in animal-based experiments. However, results from human populations appear inconsistent and sometimes contradictory, likely because they have been based on single famine events. In this paper, we adopt a different approach. We combine official annual time series of daily nutrient availability with a sample of women's r…
Female family heads in fascist Italy: A study of the 1931 population census
This article examines the characteristics of Italian families with a female family head in the Italian Population Census of 1931. The aim is to assess the spread and distribution of female-led families in Italy, and to analyze, in demographic and socio-economic terms, the characteristics of these families and the women who led them. Differences between these female-led families and those with male family heads are highlighted in terms of demograp…
The Contrasting Effects of Education on Fertility over Time Casalguidi, 1819–1960
Education has been frequently claimed to shape demographic outcomes. Mortality, fertility, and nuptiality have all been attested to be affected to some extent by education attainment. This article investigates the effects of education on fertility over time in a rural Italian community once controlled for potential confounders. Using individual-level data drawn from various sources, the study analyzes the role of education in shaping reproductive…
The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers. This methodology makes it possible to associate the sequence and timing of demographic events not only with the structural features of the households in which they occurred, but also with more general historical context and the economic factors that shaped the lives of peo…
Mortalité maternelle en Italie. Évolution et différences territoriales, 1887-1955
Les différences régionales ont toujours été présentes dans l’histoire socioéconomique de l’Italie, et elles ont profondément marqué la démographie de chaque région. La mortalité maternelle compte parmi ces différences, dans son rapport aux dépenses de santé publique, aux sages femmes, au rôle social de la femme, à l’analphabétisme et l’incroyance en la science médicale, et au statut socioéconomique. Le but de cet article est précisément d’éclaire…
Intensity of Agricultural Workload and the Seasonality of Births in Italy
Male fertility between biology and the socioeconomic context news from the past (Alghero, 1866–1935)
In the process of fertility decline, the role and participation of men have hardly been considered in the demographic literature. It has grown only as fertility was dropping dramatically in most Western countries, but very little has been done to analyze such an issue in historical populations. Based on individual-level data, the present paper aims at investigating, by means of hazard models, the role of males in the reproductive pattern of the p…
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Deaths and survivors in war: The Italian soldiers in WWI
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
“Ashes to Ashes…”: Could the Recent Evolution of the Cremation Practice in Italy be Interpreted as an Indication of Secularisation
In the second half of the nineteenth century, a massive communication campaign sustaining the practice of cremation was carried out in Italy, leading to the approval of a law in 1888 according to which cremation was allowed. This made Italy the first European country to introduce cremation in its legal system, but at the same time, one of the last to experience a mass diffusion of this practice, which has always been fiercely fought by the Cathol…
Seasonality of livebirths and climatic factors in Italian regions (1863-1933)
Birth seasonality is a phenomenon that characterizes almost all the populations of the world. In spite of this, the causes underlying these seasonal fluctuations represent an as yet unsolved puzzle. Two main theoretical approaches have been proposed to explain birth seasonality. The first encompasses a social explanation and emphasizes the role of social, economic and cultural factors in determining the optimal moment (from a social perspective) …
Reproductive Change in Transitional Italy: More Insights from the Italian Fertility Survey of 1961
Le rôle des variables intermédiaires de fécondité reste une question largement inexplorée au niveau micro en Italie. Cet article étudie les effets de l’éducation féminine et des critères socioéconomiques sur le déclin de la fécondité dans dix populations italiennes, par le biais d’une analyse des cohortes de mariages de la fin du xix e siècle à 1951. Les données sont tirées de l’Enquête sur la Fécondité qui a été menée au sein du recensement ital…
Living alone in nineteenth-century rural Italy: Was there any way out
Few studies have dealt with the issue of people living alone in pretransitional rural populations. Alone by choice or circumstances, usually poor and sometimes stigmatised, solitaries often had a hard life. This article analyses the characteristics and life-histories of people living alone in two rural villages in nineteenth-century Italy with the aim of understanding whether and how solitaries managed to find a way out from solitude. The results…
Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers: Composition des fratries selon le sexe et fécondité dans une population italienne prétransitionnelle
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
Let's talk about love: An analysis of the religious and economic factors determining the choice of marital property regime in Italy
In sociological literature, expectations about marriagesâ duration are generally considered to be one of the main determinants in the pooling of economic resources between spouses. According to Catholic precepts, religious marriages are indissoluble, and I
Superstitions surrounding the choice of wedding date in Italy: What has changed since the beginning of the economic development process to the present
The relationship between family characteristics and height in Sardinia at the turn of the twentieth century
This paper is intended as a contribution to the debate on the determinants of physical stature in the past and it specifically investigates whether, in Sardinia, height − considered as a proxy of the share of household resources allocated to a child’s growth − was influenced by the number of brothers and sisters amongst whom parents had to distribute available resources. This study is limited to the male population, because military records repre…
A micro-analytical Investigation of Reproductive Behaviour in Italy during the Fascist Period
Entre la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays européens, le régime fasciste italien prit des mesures pour lutter efficacement contre la baisse de la fécondité. Utilisant les données individuelles du recensement de 1961 dans quatre communautés présentant des profils sociaux et économiques variés, cette analyse se fixe pour objectif de vérifier si la campagne de propagande du régime et les mesures légis…
For the times they are a changin: The respect for religious precepts through the analysis of the seasonality of marriages. Italy, 1862-2012
It is well known that the Catholic Churchâ s prohibition of celebrating weddings during Lent operated as a significant deterrent in this period. We analysed the effect of the Lent restriction on marriage seasonality in the period from the unification of the
Saison et climat comme contraintes de la survie des enfants. L'expérience italienne au XIXe siècle
Breschi Marco et Livi Bacci Massimo. - Saison et climat comme contraintes de la survie des enfants. L'expérience italienne au xix* siècle. Puisque la mortalité infantile ancienne dépendait des conditions climatiques, elle devait varier selon le mois de naissance. C'est effectivement ce que Ton met en évidence aussi bien à partir des statistiques officielles (de 1863 à 1882, les décès ont été publiés en Italie avec un double classement par âge et …
Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
The relationship between family characteristics and height in Sardinia at the turn of the twentieth century
This paper is intended as a contribution to the debate on the determinants of physical stature in the past and it specifically investigates whether, in Sardinia, height − considered as a proxy of the share of household resources allocated to a child’s growth − was influenced by the number of brothers and sisters amongst whom parents had to distribute available resources. This study is limited to the male population, because military records repre…
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866–1925
Fertility transition and social stratification in the town of Alghero, Sardinia (1866-1935)
Despite the large amount of research on European fertility transition, the mechanisms of this demographic process are still poorly understood. This is particularly true in the Italian demographic experience, especially for some regions
Living Arrangements and the Elderly: An Analysis of Old-Age Mortality by Household Structure in Casalguidi, 1819–1859
The elevated levels of protection, assistance, and care enjoyed by the elderly living in complex households has long been a key assumption of many family system theories. However, although this hypothesis has been demonstrated for contemporary contexts, quantitative evidence for past populations is particularly scarce, if not nonexistent. This article investigates the relationship between old-age mortality and living arrangements in a mid–ninetee…
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy: The rediscovery of the Italian fertility survey of 1961
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population: The case of household out-migration
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relatio
Italian Fertility: An Historical Account
This article presents a brief synthesis of our knowledge about the evolution of fertility in Italy. The late start of the demographic transition in Italy, compared with other countries of western Europe, was due to the persistence of high mortality levels and Italy's particular vulnerability to fluctuations and crises up until the 1870s. This situation prevented fertility limitation, which had been practiced in small areas and groups earlier in t…
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy: A Comparative Study
Intensity of Agricultural Workload and the Seasonality of Births in Italy
For the times they are a changin: The respect for religious precepts through the analysis of the seasonality of marriages. Italy, 1862-2012
It is well known that the Catholic Churchâ s prohibition of celebrating weddings during Lent operated as a significant deterrent in this period. We analysed the effect of the Lent restriction on marriage seasonality in the period from the unification of the
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
The Role of Remarriage in a Microevolutionary Process: Considerations from a 19th-Century Italian Community
In this study, we investigate the extent to which social norms and cultural constraints might affect the genetic contribution of remarriage to future generations in a mid-19th century Italian population. By reconstructing the life histories of the inhabitants of Casalguidi, 1,028 marriages were recorded and analyzed. Frequency and reproductive pattern of remarriages were found to play a quantitatively important role in the process of population r…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers: Composition des fratries selon le sexe et fécondité dans une population italienne prétransitionnelle
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
Veuvage et remariage en Sardaigne, Alghero, 1866-1925
Cet article analyse le remariage en Sardaigne, de l'unification italienne (1861) jusqu'aux premières décennies du xx e siècle. L'île se distinguait alors par un modèle de nuptialité différent du schéma dominant en Italie continentale. Dès le haut Moyen Âge, le mariage sarde présente des modalités originales de propriété et d'héritage, en particulier par le rôle majeur reconnu aux femmes dans la gestion de la famille, de ses ressources économiques…
Spouse selection by health status and physical traits. Sardinia, 1856–1925
Military medical information and data from civil registers of death and marriage have been used to study the role of physical characteristics and health conditions in explaining access to marriage for the male population of Alghero, a small city located in Sardinia Island (Italy), at the turn of 19th century. Literature data about contemporary populations have already demonstrated the influence of somatic traits in the mate choice. The results pr…
Health and socio-demographic conditions as determinants of marriage and social mobility: Male partner choice in Sardinia, late 19th-early 20th century
This paper makes use of data collected from military registers and marriage certificates for the population of Alghero, in Sardinia, for the period 1866-1925, with the aim of investigating the role played by physical characteristics and health in the p
Deaths and survivors in war: The Italian soldiers in WWI
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
Let's talk about love: An analysis of the religious and economic factors determining the choice of marital property regime in Italy
In sociological literature, expectations about marriagesâ duration are generally considered to be one of the main determinants in the pooling of economic resources between spouses. According to Catholic precepts, religious marriages are indissoluble, and I
Mortality Patterns of Cardinals (Sixteenth ? Twentieth Centuries)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l’Église catholique du xvie au xxe siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l’Église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l’assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le Ve siècle, il est possible d’en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période ét…
Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian community
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage. By using micro-level data from a nineteenth-century Italian community for the period 1819–1859, we found evidence of the very predominant role of household structure in the decision to remarry for both widows and widowers. In particular, the interplay between the presence of a supportive family network and the presence of cores…
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany
Landed vs landless: a poor interpretative framework of demographic patterns • Land access is associated with specific demographic mechanisms • Control over marriage and selective migration as regulators of household size • Higher vulnerability and sensitiveness of day laborers to short-term stress In pre-industrial rural Italy, the disparities among smallholders, sharecroppers, and day laborers were starkly defined by their unequal access to land…
Between Constraints and Coercion: Marriage and Social Reproduction in Northern and Central Italy, 18th-19th Centuries
Effet du climat sur la mortalité infantile: Résultats pour la Savoie, le Piémont et la Ligurie en 1828-1837
Effect du climat sur la mortalité infantile: Résultats pour la Savoie, le Piémont et la Ligurie en 1828-1837
Breschi Marco, Livi Bacci Massimo. Effet du climat sur la mortalité infantile : résultats pour la Savoie, le Piémont et la Ligurie en 1828-1837. In: Population, 41e année, n°6, 1986. pp. 1072-1074
Saison et climat comme contraintes de la survie des enfants. L'expérience italienne au XIXe siècle
Breschi Marco et Livi Bacci Massimo. - Saison et climat comme contraintes de la survie des enfants. L'expérience italienne au xix* siècle. Puisque la mortalité infantile ancienne dépendait des conditions climatiques, elle devait varier selon le mois de naissance. C'est effectivement ce que Ton met en évidence aussi bien à partir des statistiques officielles (de 1863 à 1882, les décès ont été publiés en Italie avec un double classement par âge et …
Italian Fertility: An Historical Account
This article presents a brief synthesis of our knowledge about the evolution of fertility in Italy. The late start of the demographic transition in Italy, compared with other countries of western Europe, was due to the persistence of high mortality levels and Italy's particular vulnerability to fluctuations and crises up until the 1870s. This situation prevented fertility limitation, which had been practiced in small areas and groups earlier in t…
Le mois de naissance comme facteur de survie des enfants
Season of birth may influence considerably children's survival. This study extends the analysis that the Authors have already carried out on the Italian regions and Savoy to other countries : Russia, Low Countries, Belgium and Switzerland. The data refer to the second half of the 19th century. It is in Italy that differential mortality according to season of birth is larger (maximum differential in the Venetia region), followed by Russia and Swit…
Coresident and non-coresident kin in a nineteenth-century italian rural community
Fondé sur une reconstruction minutieuse des parcours de vie des individus et des familles d’un village italien du xixe siècle, ce travail étudie l’impact des réseaux de parenté locaux sur la mobilité des habitants, en distinguant particulièrement les deux groupes principaux agricoles, les journaliers et les métayers. Plus d’enracinement de long terme du côté des métayers, des mouvements de courte distance et une fragmentation des unités familiale…
The Role of Remarriage in a Microevolutionary Process: Considerations from a 19th-Century Italian Community
In this study, we investigate the extent to which social norms and cultural constraints might affect the genetic contribution of remarriage to future generations in a mid-19th century Italian population. By reconstructing the life histories of the inhabitants of Casalguidi, 1,028 marriages were recorded and analyzed. Frequency and reproductive pattern of remarriages were found to play a quantitatively important role in the process of population r…
Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian community
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage. By using micro-level data from a nineteenth-century Italian community for the period 1819–1859, we found evidence of the very predominant role of household structure in the decision to remarry for both widows and widowers. In particular, the interplay between the presence of a supportive family network and the presence of cores…
Socioeconomic Structure and Differential Fertility by Wealth in a Mid-Nineteenth Century Tuscan Community
Cet article porte sur la relation existant entre richesse et fécondité dans un village toscan à la démographie pré-transitionnelle, Casalguidi au milieu du xix e siècle. Cet enjeu est très important en démographie historique car les grands traits des populations caractérisées par une fécondité naturelle et l’absence de contrôle volontaire des naissances ne sont pas encore tous dévoilés. Grâce à des données à l’échelle micro, nous reconstruisons n…
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy: A Comparative Study
Mortality Patterns of Cardinals (Sixteenth ? Twentieth Centuries)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l’Église catholique du xvie au xxe siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l’Église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l’assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le Ve siècle, il est possible d’en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période ét…
Spouse selection by health status and physical traits. Sardinia, 1856–1925
Military medical information and data from civil registers of death and marriage have been used to study the role of physical characteristics and health conditions in explaining access to marriage for the male population of Alghero, a small city located in Sardinia Island (Italy), at the turn of 19th century. Literature data about contemporary populations have already demonstrated the influence of somatic traits in the mate choice. The results pr…
Health and socio-demographic conditions as determinants of marriage and social mobility: Male partner choice in Sardinia, late 19th-early 20th century
This paper makes use of data collected from military registers and marriage certificates for the population of Alghero, in Sardinia, for the period 1866-1925, with the aim of investigating the role played by physical characteristics and health in the p
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866–1925
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population: The case of household out-migration
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relatio
La mortalité des cardinaux (XVIe-XXe siècles)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l'Église catholique du XVI e au XX e siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l'église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l'assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le V e siècle, il est possible d'en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période…
The Sardinian experience of the lowest Italian infant mortality at the turn of the twentieth century. True or false empirical evidence
Selon les sources statistiques officielles italiennes, la Sardaigne, dans les décennies qui ont suivi l’unification nationale (1861), présentait le plus faible taux de mortalité néonatale et infantile du pays et un taux de mortinatalité nettement inférieur à la moyenne nationale. L’objectif principal de cet article est de voir à nouveaux frais l’évolution de la mortalité infantile dans l’île, en tenant compte des progrès de l’enregistrement des d…
Height, socioeconomic status and marriage in Italy around 1900
Between Constraints and Coercion: Marriage and Social Reproduction in Northern and Central Italy, 18th-19th Centuries
Widowhood and Remarriage in Sardinia, Alghero, 1866-1925
This paper focuses on remarriage in Sardinia from the years following national unification (1861) until the first decades of the twentieth century. The marriage pattern on the island was different from the one that predominated in Italy. As early as the High Middle Ages, marriage was celebrated within the context of a distinctive property and inheritance regime, and Sardinian women played an important role in the management of the family and its …
Living Arrangements and the Elderly: An Analysis of Old-Age Mortality by Household Structure in Casalguidi, 1819–1859
The elevated levels of protection, assistance, and care enjoyed by the elderly living in complex households has long been a key assumption of many family system theories. However, although this hypothesis has been demonstrated for contemporary contexts, quantitative evidence for past populations is particularly scarce, if not nonexistent. This article investigates the relationship between old-age mortality and living arrangements in a mid–ninetee…
Veuvage et remariage en Sardaigne, Alghero, 1866-1925
Cet article analyse le remariage en Sardaigne, de l'unification italienne (1861) jusqu'aux premières décennies du xx e siècle. L'île se distinguait alors par un modèle de nuptialité différent du schéma dominant en Italie continentale. Dès le haut Moyen Âge, le mariage sarde présente des modalités originales de propriété et d'héritage, en particulier par le rôle majeur reconnu aux femmes dans la gestion de la famille, de ses ressources économiques…
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy: The rediscovery of the Italian fertility survey of 1961
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
Fertility transition and social stratification in the town of Alghero, Sardinia (1866-1935)
Despite the large amount of research on European fertility transition, the mechanisms of this demographic process are still poorly understood. This is particularly true in the Italian demographic experience, especially for some regions
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