Fertility Policy in Ceausescu's Romania

Bibliographic Data

ID6079458
AuthorsT Keil (0000-0001-6124-0655, Arizona State University), Thomas J Keil (Arizona State University West), Viviana Andreescu (0000-0003-2733-437X, University of Louisville)
Year1999
Volume24
Issue4
Pages478-492
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319909902400405
PMID11623953
OpenAlexW2147261311
LanguageEN
Citations received17

This study tests a model for the impact that Ceausescu's pro-natalist policies had on the Romanian fertility rate between 1967 and 1989. Using time-series analysis, the authors' findings show that the Ceausescu regime continually struggled with the Romanian population to increase the national birthrate. As a result of the regime's policies, there was a significant increase in overall fertility between 1967 and 1989, when the Ceausescu regime was overthrown. Reasons are offered as to why Romania pursued such policies and was able to make them work, while other Eastern and Central European regimes proved to be less able to sustain drives to increase national fertility. This article also presents a model of what has happened to the Romanian fertility rate since 1989, showing that there has been a significant decline in fertility in the post-Communist period

Fertility · Geography · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition

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