Fertility and Marriage in a Nineteenth-Century Industrial City
Philadelphia, 1850-1880
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5081703 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael R Haines (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 151-158 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002205070010467x |
| PMID | 11632254 |
| OpenAlex | W2097200695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
This paper examines age-specific and differential fertility, both marital and total, and nuptiality for census samples of white Philadelphia families headed by native white Americans, Germans, and Irish for 1850-1880. Using Philadelphia Social History Project data, own-children techniques are employed to construct age-standardized child-woman ratios and age-specific total and marital fertility rates. Conclusions are that the low fertility among native whites was due to both low marital fertility and later marriage; that rapid declines in marital fertility occurred among second generation migrants; and that variations existed in marital fertility across occupational groupings within ethnic groups
Census · Developed country · Ethnic group · Fertility · Geography · Historical demography · Irish · Marital status · Population · Sociology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Economic and Social Studies
Current Bibliography of Urban History
Denomination and fertility decline
Inequality and Childhood Mortality
Killer cities and industrious cities ? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth
The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910
A paleodemographic assessment of mortality and fertility rates during the second demographic transition in rural central Indiana
Fertility, Nuptiality, and Family Limitation Among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, 1854 to 1920
The regional bibliography of Irish America, 1800–1930
Own-child estimates of U.S. white fertility, 1886–99
New demographic history of the late 19th-century United States
Delaying the Fertility Decline
Frontier Patterns of Marriage, Family, and Ethnicity
The Delayed Western Fertility Decline
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2022 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |