Lessons from the Past
Policy Implications of Historical Fertility Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4122623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Knodel, Etienne Van De Walle |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217 |
| Publication date | 1979-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1971824 |
| OpenAlex | W2312512213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 214 |
| References cited | 3 |
Drawing on data compiled during Princeton European Fertility Project authors find that the historical record suggests relative lack of importance of income and prices in determining demand for children prior to or during early stages of fertility decline [in Europe during last century]. They assert that some early features of European transition from high to low fertility can only be explained by a change in tastes or a decline in cost of fertility regulation or some combination of two. Among features of Europes demographic transition that authors note are the variety of social economic and demographic conditions under which decline of fertility occurred; its remarkable concentration over time; apparent coincidence of decline with sudden adoption of family limitation practices; rapid generalization of such practices once they appeared; resultant drastic change of reproductive regimes; and finally importance of cultural factors among those that appeared to influence onset and spread of fertility decline. An innovation-diffusion dimension to change in reproductive patterns is observed and implications for family planning programs in developing countries are considered. (EXCERPT)
Development economics · Economics · Fertility · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · History
Childcare in Transition
Completed Fertility During the Twentieth Century
Period and Cohort Dynamics in Fertility Norms at the Onset of the Demographic Transition in Kenya 1978–1998
Reading the geography of India’s district-level fertility differentials
Significance of beliefs and values in predicting fertility and contraceptive behaviour in Pakistan
Role of the environment in the decline of infant mortality
Variations in historical natural fertility patterns and the measurement of fertility control
Influence of maternal height on children’s health status and mortality
As faces da cultura no programa de saúde reprodutiva e direitos, do fundo das nações unidas para a população/UNFPA, em Sokoto, Nigéria
Diffusion Test of Fertility Decline in Arab Countries of the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Region
Fertility Patterns and Reproductive Behaviours in the Lutheran and Catholic Populations from Historical Poland
Female education, age, parity, and reproduction cessation in Ghana
Impact of Regional Factors on Cohort Fertility
Einfluss regionaler Faktoren auf die Kohortenfertilität
Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change
Reproductive Strategies and Decisions in Senegal
The demographic transition revisited as a global process
Explaining regional fertility variations in Ghana
A Guide to Global Population Projections
Reproductive behaviour in the Lutheran urban family from historical Poland (the Parish of St. Peter from Poznań, the second half of the nineteenth century)
Malthus to modernity
Les mécanismes autorégulateurs des populations traditionnelles
Fertility Patterns Among Soviet Immigrants To Israel
Social Upheaval and Fertility Decline
Changing household composition, labor patterns, and fertility in a highland New Guinea population
La fecundidad y sus determinantes en España, 1887-1920. Un ensayo de interpretación
La evolución reciente de la fecundidad y el embarazo en España
Fertility decline in the modern world and in the original demographic transition
Los estudios de fecundidad en poblaciones contemporáneas como referentes directos para los estudios paleodemográficos
Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden
The historical decline of fertility in Eastern Europe
Distinguishing Stopping Behavior from Spacing Behavior with Indirect Methods
The Munich Polizeimeldebögen as a Source for Quantitative History
A A transição da fecundidade no Brasil ao longo do século XX - uma perspectiva regional
Fertility in Anthropological Populations
Bioanthropological Research in Developing Countries
Illumination with a Dim Bulb? What Do Social Scientists Learn by Employing Qualitative Data Analysis Software in the Service of Multimethod Designs
Some roots of preference
The threshold hypothesis
Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia
Marital Fertility Decline in the Netherlands
What Do We Know About the Timing of Fertility Transitions in Europe
Women's Status and Fertility
Community Characteristics, Women's Education, and Fertility in Peru
Abstención sexual durante la Cuaresma en Andalucía a lo largo del siglo XX y su impacto en la estacionalidad de los nacimientos
Residence and Religious Effects on Declining Family Size
Fertility of Chinese Immigrants in the U. S
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
The Role of Economic Growth in the Fertility Transition in Western Europe
Demographic Transition in Ecological Focus
Population
Fertility and Social Interaction
The Historical Fertility Transition
The Promises of Comparative Research
"Encounters with the "peasant
Planning an Indian Modernity
Population Policy in Early Victorian England
Urban versus Rural
Unmet need for couples
La fecundidad y sus determinantes en España, 1887-1920. Un ensayo de interpretación
Diffusion Effects in the European Fertility Transition
Problems of regional population growth in Serbia
Why Are Modern Families Small? Toward an Evolutionary and Cultural Explanation for the Demographic Transition
Sociosexual orientation, life history strategy, and reproductive success
Mobile Phones and Attitudes toward Women’s Participation in Politics
The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949
Historical Europe in the Asian “mirror”
Fertility behaviour in linguistic zones
Pathways to Low Fertility in India
Rural/urban fertility differentials and the role of female education in declining birth rates
Low fertility spread in China
Understanding the urban‐rural fertility divide in sub‐Saharan Africa
Changing Determinants of Low Fertility and Diffusion
Regional fertility differences in Turkey
Regional paths to fertility transition
Women's status and fertility in rural India
Unwed mothers in the city. Illegitimate fertility in 19th-century Geneva
Differences in intergenerational fertility associations by sex and race in Saba, Dutch Caribbean, 1876–2004
Economic conditions, marital status, and the timing of first births
The fertility transition
Poverty, Gender and Fertility in Rural Kenya
A test of a path model of biocultural transmission of fertility
Dimensions and crystallization of family‐size norms
Socio-cultural organization and fertility attitudes and behaviour of wives in Ezibeleni township (Transkei)
Are children poor men's riches
Early Fertility Decline in the United States
She said she was in the family way
Differences between Women's and Men's Reproductive Goals in Developing Countries
Rethinking Historical Reproductive Change
Spatial Analysis of the Causes of Fertility Decline in Prussia
Cultural and Economic Approaches to Fertility
The Emerging Demographic Transitions of Southeast Asia
Qualitative Methods
The Global Fertility Transition
The End of the Fertility Transition in the Developed World
Why Do Americans Want Children
Structural Assimilation and Ethnic Fertility in Ghana
Fertility transition in a rural, Catholic population
Innovation and Adaptation in Fertility Transition
| Unique citing works | 214 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,55 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 164 |