Old-age security motives, labor markets, and farm family fertility in antebellum American

Sundstrom, William A.; David, Paul A.

doi:10.1016/0014-4983(88)90015-0

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“…This is also the case in much previous scholarship on American fertility, which has focused great attention on the interplay between changing conditions in the farm sector and fertility in relation to migration, land availability, and old age security (e.g., Easterlin 1976; Sundstrom and David 1988). Maloney et al make a valuable addition to this scholarship by charting how socioeconomic status and fertility interacted in the frontier regions of the United States.…”

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Socioeconomic status and fertility before, during, and after the demographic transition: An introduction

Dribe¹,

Oris²,

Pozzi³

2014

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDDespite a long interest in the historical fertility transition, there is still a lack of knowledge about disaggregated patterns that could help us understand the mechanisms behind the transition. In previous research the widely held view is that there was a change in the association between social status and fertility in conjunction with the fertility transition, implying that fertility went from being positively connected to social status (higher status was connected with higher fertility) to being negatively associated with fertility. OBJECTIVEThe aim of this collection is to study socioeconomic patterns in the fertility transition in a variety of contexts using similar approaches and measures of socioeconomic status. METHODAll contributions use different kinds of micro-level socioeconomic and demographic data and statistical models in the analysis. Data either come from census-like records or population registers. CONCLUSIONSThere is no consistent evidence for the hypothesis that socioeconomic status was positively related to fertility before the demographic transition. While such a correlation was clearly present in some contexts it was clearly not in others. There is more support for the idea that the upper and middle classes acted as forerunners in the transition, while farmers especially were late to change their fertility behavior. It is also evident

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Socioeconomic status and fertility before, during, and after the demographic transition: An introduction

Dribe¹,

Oris²,

Pozzi³

2014

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“…Children could also have been a benefit to their parents as a form of social insurance and old-age support (Easterlin 1976, see also Sundstrom and David 1988). The development of welfare institutions, such as unemployment benefits and pension systems, should then have reduced these benefits, which could have contributed to a lower demand for children, and thus to fertility decline.…”

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The historical fertility transition at the micro level

Bengtsson¹,

Dribe²

2014

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“…This constitutes an important difference between the present model and the statements of classical studies on proto-industrialization referred to earlier. At the same time, it is more congenial to models that consider the departure of offspring from the parental household as the outcome of a process of decision making and bargaining (see, for instance, Sundstrom & David, 1988). In fact, it is difficult to say whether setup costs differed systematically between the two stylized household economies presented in Fig.…”

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Exit, voice, and loyalty: Parent–child relations in the proto-industrial household economy (Zürich, 17th–18th centuries)

Pfister

2004

The History of the Family

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This article formulates a simple model of parent-child interest conflicts. Based on a simple model of a household economy with a production or wage income function, a labor maintenance cost function, and an externally given wage rate, it discusses potential conflicts over the appropriation of the product of family members' labor in terms of the trilogy of exit, voice, and loyalty. The model is then explored by using household lists that provide detailed information on the economic activity of individuals. Many young proto-industrial workers used the threat of exiting their parents' household to keep much of their earnings through the Rast custom (boarding allowance). The threat of leaving operated well among the middle and lower classes of proto-industrial society, but it is unclear whether it also worked for the daughters of farmers who apparently left home much earlier than their brothers. The discourse of contemporaries about the Rast custom are considered and interpreted as a counterstrategy against the exit threat in which the elders fostered a sense of loyalty among the young. D 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Old-age security motives, labor markets, and farm family fertility in antebellum American

Cited by 78 publications

References 18 publications

Socioeconomic status and fertility before, during, and after the demographic transition: An introduction

Socioeconomic status and fertility before, during, and after the demographic transition: An introduction

The historical fertility transition at the micro level

Exit, voice, and loyalty: Parent–child relations in the proto-industrial household economy (Zürich, 17th–18th centuries)

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