The historical fertility transition at the micro level: Southern Sweden 1815-1939

The authors know a great deal about the historical fertility transition at the macro level. The dominating focus on the macro level in previous research on the fertility transition means, however, that to a large extent we lack knowledge about details of the decline and empirical tests of the leadin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Demographic research 2014, Vol.30 (17), p.493-534
Hauptverfasser: Bengtsson, Tommy, Dribe, Martin
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The authors know a great deal about the historical fertility transition at the macro level. The dominating focus on the macro level in previous research on the fertility transition means, however, that to a large extent we lack knowledge about details of the decline and empirical tests of the leading explanatory frameworks. Their aim is to explore socioeconomic fertility differentials in an industrializing community, to gain insight about the details and discuss possible mechanisms. The study starts well before industrialization and finishes at the end of the transition. They have used longitudinal individual-level data from the Scanian Economic-Demographic Database, which contains demographic as well as socioeconomic information, including occupation, landholding, and income. The transition involved not only parity-specific stopping but also spacing. While the upper social strata had higher fertility prior to the transition, they started to control their fertility earlier, by the 1880s, and also more consistently. Farmers, the middle class, and skilled workers followed in the decades after, and unskilled workers with some additional delay.
ISSN:1435-9871
2363-7064
1435-9871
DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.17