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Adapting Family Size and Composition

Childhood Mortality and Fertility in Rural Spain, 1750-1949

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3211873
AutoresFrancisco J Marco-Gracia (0000-0002-8150-9823, Real Academia Española, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen51
Número4
Páginas509-531
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/jinh_a_01626
OpenAlexW3135432320
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas18

An event-history analysis of ten rural villages in Spain from 1750 to 1949 indicates that the likelihood of parents having additional children was influenced by the number of their surviving children and the children's sex composition. Parents whose children had a low survival rate had more children than parents whose children generally survived. Exclusively having daughters during the pre-transitional period also reflected, to a limited degree, the likelihood of new conception. The results suggest that some families adapted their reproductive behavior to their desired objectives. In the pre-transitional period, as well as during the transition itself, decisions to control or encourage fertility often appear to have been based on family size and composition

Composition (language) · Fertility · Geography · Period (music) · Population · Rural area · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Psychology

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Obras citantes distintas8
Citas por año1,6
Intervalo de citas2021 - 2026 (6)
Velocidad de citacióncurrent
Altamente citadoNo
Tipos de citaNeutras: 8
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