Effect of the War on the Birth Rate and Postwar Fertility Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2201903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wilson H Grabill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1944 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 107-111 |
| Publication date | 1944-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/219517 |
| OpenAlex | W2017355024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The birth rate has already passed the wartime peak and is now rapidly declining. The record 1943 crop of 3,100,000 babies will probably be reduced to about 2,640,000 in 1944 and to 2,100,000 yearly by the time the war ends. Immediately after the war a temporary revival is to be expected as the backlog of postponed marriages is consumed and as ex-servicemen return to their families. In the long run the postwar trend will again be downward, unless there are some basic changes in the pattern of family limitation, which has continued even during the wartime "baby boom." The recent upsurge in the birth rate should not lull us with a false sense that the problems of a declining birth rate have been solved
Baby boom · Birth rate · Boom · Demographic economics · Economic history · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Total fertility rate · World War II · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Engineering · History · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |