The Adoption of Fertility Control on Mykonos, 1879-1959

This abstract examines the timing and means of the fertility transition on the Greek island of Mykonos in the period 1879 to 1959. By combining the results of family reconstitution with oral evidence, an unusual insight into the pathways of the fertility transition of this island population is offered. The paper concludes by outlining a model of the adoption of fertility control, a model which sees the transition from high to low fertility as a transition from spacing to stopping, and from innovation of methods to innovation of ideas

Biology · Birth control · Control (management) · Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Natural fertility · Period (music) · Physics · Population · Population control · Research methodology · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

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