Fécondité des mariages dans le quart nord-ouest de la France de 1670 a 1829

Henry, L.; Houdaille, Jacques

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“…The summary papers of the Enquête Henry are: Henry, ‘Fécondité … sud‐ouest’; idem, ‘Fécondité … sud‐est’; Henry and Houdaille, ‘Fécondité … nord‐ouest’; Houdaille, ‘Fécondité … nord‐est’. A summary of all studies using the Henry data (before 1997) is listed in Renard, ‘Enquête Louis Henry’.…”

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Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: ruralFrance, 1750–1850

Cummins

2012

The Economic History Review

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It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth‐century France, yet there is no consensus on exactly why fertility declined. This analysis links fertility life histories to wealth at death data for four rural villages in France, 1750–1850. For the first time, the wealth–fertility relationship during the onset of the French fertility decline can be analysed. Where fertility is declining, wealth is a powerful predictor of smaller family size. This article argues that fertility decline in France was a result of changing levels of economic inequality, associated with the 1789 Revolution. In cross‐section, the data support this hypothesis: where fertility is declining, economic inequality is lower than where fertility is high.

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Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: ruralFrance, 1750–1850

Cummins

2012

The Economic History Review

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“…For our purposes, the ideal measure is all births per mother or all births per father: if a marriage is terminated early by the death of one party, the other has the option to remarry to attain the desired family size in the presence of controlled fertility. We would also ideally use only mothers who reached 8 The summary papers of the Enquête Henry are Henry (1972), Henry and Houdaille (1973), Houdaille (1976), and Henry (1978). A summary of all studies using the Henry data (before 1997) is listed in Renard (1997), and detailed discussion of the database can be found in Séguy and Méric (1997), , Séguy and le Sager (1999), Séguy et al (2001).…”

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Twins Support the Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pretransition Populations

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A conclusion of the European Fertility Project in 1986 was that pretransition populations mostly displayed natural fertility, where parity-dependent birth control was absent. This conclusion has recently been challenged for England by new empirical results and has also been widely rejected by theorists of long-run economic growth, where pre-industrial fertility control is integral to most models. In this study, we use the accident of twin births to show that for three Western European-derived pre-industrial populations-namely, England (1730-1879), France (1670-1788), and Québec (1621-1835)-we find no evidence for parity-dependent control of marital fertility. If a twin was born in any of these populations, family size increased by 1 compared with families with a singleton birth at the same parity and mother age, with no reduction of subsequent fertility. Numbers of children surviving to age 14 also increased. Twin births also show no differential effect on fertility when they occurred at high parities; this finding is in contrast to populations where fertility is known to have been controlled by at least some families, such as in England, 1900-1949, where a twin birth increased average births per family by significantly less than 1.

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“…When families have been reconstructed, results usually published are age-specific marital fertility rates, which do not permit a direct calculation of the proportion of births occurring above a specific age. From the data of Henry & Houdaille (1973) it has been possible to compute such a proportion for an entire region of France (northwest), for women married between 1670 and 1770. The proportion of births occurring to women aged 35 or over was 30-4% in these cohorts-a figure thus applying to most of the 18th century.…”

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“…The recent decline in fertility experienced by most developed countries has affected high parities and later ages much more than low parities and younger ages. In England and Wales, the proportion of births after age 35 has been reduced by half between 1964 and 1975, and the actual number of these births in 1964-1975Year 196419651966196719681969197019711972197319741975 France (%) 13-8 13-6 13-5 13-2 12-7 12-2 11-4 10-8 10-0 9-4 8-7 7-7…”

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Patterns of fertility at later ages of reproduction

Léridon

1979

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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This paper discusses some of the things that demographers know about fertility at later ages of reproduction in developed countries. The nature of the information available through, for example, vital statistics is often a product of history and of administrative requirements, rather than the result of a well-based scheme. Surveys are frequently used to fill the gaps in major sources, but no survey appears to have been carried out specifically on the topic under discussion here. The available information will be discussed under four broad headings: (1) the levels and the trends of late fertility, as compared with fertility at younger ages; (2) the specific characteristics of mothers giving birth at later ages; (3) the specific characteristics of the corresponding births, and the risks for pregnancies at older ages; (4) the question of whether these births are less wanted than others.

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Fécondité des mariages dans le quart nord-ouest de la France de 1670 a 1829

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Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: ruralFrance, 1750–1850

Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: ruralFrance, 1750–1850

Twins Support the Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pretransition Populations

Patterns of fertility at later ages of reproduction

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