Marriage and Fertility in Postfamine Ireland

Connell's theory of postfamine demographic trens in Ireland ties declining fertility to declining marriage rates. Falling marriage rates. Falling marriage rates, in turn, are traced to economic hardship, primarily in the acquisition of land, considered so necessary for marriage. Though long accepted, this theory has not received a systematic statistical test. Using data from the censuses of 1851, 1871, 1891, and 1911, and a multivariate regression analysis, this paper attempts such a test. The result indicate that the theory is only marginally successful in explaining marriage-rate variations among the counties of Ireland. Moreover, there are indications that variations in marital fertility were more important than variations in marriage rates in the structuring of general fertility levels during certain portions of the postfamine period

Biology · Demographic economics · Economics · Falling (accident) · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Test (biology) · Total fertility rate · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology

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