The Postwar Rise and Decline of American Fertility
The Pace of Transition To Motherhood Among 1950-1969 Marital Cohorts of White Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vijayan K Pillai (0000-0002-3976-4564, Iowa Urban Community Research Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1-3 |
| Pages | 421-436 |
| Publication date | 1987-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036319908701200123 |
| OpenAlex | W4239796873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This study supports the theoretical argument that historical experiences of the marital cohorts, and the changes in the social and demographic composition of the cohorts, determine the pace of childbearing among white American women married during 1950-1969. During the period 1965-1969 environmental factors supported a delay in the birth of the first child among working women. This may be the result of socioenvironmental responses to the threshold proportion of working women in the 1965-1969 cohort. In the past, compositional changes, such as an increase in the proportion of working women, have resulted from structural changes absorbing women into the labor market. These trends might have brought about attitudinal and environmental changes during these years enabling many women to become more work committed Thus, both structural and environmental changes now support delayed childbearing
Birth rate · Cohort · Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Marital status · Pace · Population · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine
Family planning, sterility and population growth
The later years of childbearing
Regression Models and Life-Tables
Planning of Births
Studies in Child Spacing
Trends and Differentials in the Spacing of Births
A critique of the national fertility study
Social and economic variations in childspacing
The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change
Education and Fertility
The Future of American Fertility
The Baby Boom and Its Explanations
The Spacing of Births in the Families of University Graduates
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |