Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior in Sweden, 1850-1889

Rotering, P.P.P.

doi:10.51964/hlcs9347

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“…Attitudes, norms, and knowledge were spread within these networks. Junkka's results are very much in accordance with what Paul Rotering (2017) and Rotering and Bras (2019) has found in a couple of studies on the Skellefteå region. Rotering has also focused on the role of networks, but whereas Junkka investigated the role of voluntary associations and the characteristics of the local population, Rotering considered the family context.…”

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Over the last 60 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations spanning decades have been launched. The development of these databases is indicative of considerable investments that have greatly expanded the possibilities for new research within the fields of history, demography, sociology, as well as other disciplines. In this volume spanning seven articles, eight databases are included that have had a wide impact on research in various disciplines. Each database had its own unique genesis that is well described in the articles assembled in this volume. They inform readers about how these databases have changed the course of research in historical demography and related disciplines, how settled findings were challenged or confirmed, and how innovative investigations were launched and implemented. In the end we explore how research with this kind of databases will develop in future.

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“…Countering the notion that demographic change can act as a schism between generations-disrupting the longstanding reproduction of the social order-other work emphasizes the potential for demographic change to accentuate patterns of inequality, further amplifying the salience of one's family history to their future experiences (Thornton, Chang, and Sun 1984). Because better resourced families are among the first to enjoy lower mortality and to pursue lower fertility (Murphy 1999;Rotering 2017), mortality and fertility decline could work to concentrate disadvantage through a set of reinforcing demographic processes across generations (Stoebenau et al 2021). Such a possibility is consistent with the fact that many low-and middle-income countries are increasingly some of the world's most unequal societies (Firebaugh 2009).…”

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Under-five mortality exposure in low- and middle-income countries: A multi-generation and cohort perspective of sibling and offspring loss

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Weitzman²,

Lin³

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Demographic research tends to track child mortality conditions with annualized death rates, paying little mind to how these annualized rates reflect in the lives of the surviving population. Yet, demography’s age-old interest in how exposure to child mortality affects individuals’ perceptions, decisions, and behaviors, and ultimately macro-level population processes, raises questions about how pervasive intimate experiences of child death remain across the globe—particularly in low- and middle-income countries where declines in mortality are recent. In this paper, we document women’s experiences of under-five mortality in 50 low- and middle-income countries, focusing comprehensively on experiences in their immediate natal or conjugal family in the form of sibling or offspring death. Specifically, we analyze Demographic and Health Survey Program data on 1.05 million women spanning three decadal birth cohorts to document women’s life-course exposure to under-five sibling or offspring death, the intergenerational clustering of these experiences, and how they are (not) changing across cohorts. The results show an exceedingly high, and often stable, percentage of women have experienced under-five sibling and offspring deaths. Moreover, women’s risk of offspring death is often strongly associated with their history of sibling death; this strong intergenerational clustering has remained stable, or has grown larger, across cohorts in most countries.

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“…Young couples raised as only children expressed higher fertility intentions than those raised with siblings (Meng & Wu, 2011; Xiu et al, 2016). Contrary to the policy effect argument, there are also studies consistent with the theory of intergenerational transmission of fertility, which argues that married couples' parental family size is a crucial factor in predicting women's fertility intentions and behaviors regarding additional children (Booth & Kee, 2009; Breton & Prioux, 2009; Dahlberg, 2013; Jennings & Leslie, 2013; Jiang et al, 2016; Nisén et al, 2013; Rotering, 2017; Xiu et al, 2016). Influenced by their parents' fertility intentions and behaviors, women who do not have siblings themselves are less likely to have multiple children compared with women who have siblings.…”

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Does the one‐child generation want more than one child at their fertility age?

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This study aims to understand intentions to have more children among reproductive-age Chinese women who currently have had one child with the goal of understanding the factors influencing Chinese women's fertility intention 2 years after implementation of the universal two-child policy. Background: On January 1, 2016, the national one-child policy formally ended in China. Do Chinese women desire to have more than one child? This study brings feminist insight into the Chinese contexts of economic development and patrilocal cultural tradition. Method: This study used nationally representative data (n = 65,355) from the 2017 China Fertility Survey. Logistic regression was used to explore the determinants of the intention of having more children. Results: Findings reveal that women from one-child families are least likely to want additional children. Women's higher income is negatively related to the desire to have more children. Rural residence and having a female firstborn child are correlated with a greater likelihood of desiring additional children. Implications: Authoritative social policies may have changed fertility behaviors for a generation of Chinese families, but removing restrictive fertility policies may not bring about higher fertility rates. New family size norms and family-friendly social policies may be needed to facilitate higher fertility rates in China.

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Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior in Sweden, 1850-1889

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Under-five mortality exposure in low- and middle-income countries: A multi-generation and cohort perspective of sibling and offspring loss

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