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Deliberate control in a natural fertility population: Southern Sweden, 1766-1864

Författare

Summary, in English

ln this article, we analyze fertility control in a rural population characterized by natural fertility, using survival analysis on a longitudinal data set at the individual level combined with food prices. Landless and semilandless families responded strongly to short-term economic stress stemming from changes in prices. The fertility response, both to moderate and large changes in food prices, was the strongest within six months after prices changed in the fall, which means that the response was deliberate. People foresaw bad times and planned their fertility accordingly. The result highlights the importance of deliberate control of the timing of childbirth before the fertiliry transition, not in order to achieve a certain family size but, as in this case, to reduce the negative impacts of short-term economic stress.

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

727-746

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Demography

Volym

43

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Population Assn Amer

Ämne

  • Economic History

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1533-7790