Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior during the Demographic Transition

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ID3586647
AutoresJulia A Jennings (0000-0003-0675-0016, Scottish Health Services), Allison R Sullivan (Pacific School of Religion), Jason Daniel Hacker (0000-0002-5971-955X, Binghamton University), J David Hacker (J. David Hacker is Associate Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton. He is the author of “Decennial Life Tables for the White Population of the United States, 1790–1900,” Historical Methods, XLIII (2010), 45–79; with Daniel Scott Smith, “Cultural Demography: New England Deaths and the Puritan Perception of Risk,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXVI (1996), 367–392)
Año2012
Volumen42
Número4
Páginas543-569
Fecha de publicación2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh_a_00304
PMID22530253
OpenAlexW1991380293
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas34

New evidence from the Utah Population Database (updp) reveals that at the onset of the fertility transition, reproductive behavior was transmitted across generations-between women and their mothers, as well as between women and their husbands' family of origin. Age at marriage, age at last birth, and the number of children ever born are positively correlated in the data, most strongly among first-born daughters and among cohorts born later in the fertility transition. Intergenerational ties, including the presence of mothers and mothers-in-law, influenced the hazard of progressing to a next birth. The findings suggest that the practice of parity-dependent marital fertility control and inter-birth spacing behavior derived, in part, from the previous generation and that the potential for mothers and mothers-in-law to help in the rearing of children encouraged higher marital fertility

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