Trends and Variations in Fertility in the United States

Kiser, Clyde V.; Grabill, Wilson H.; Campbell, Arthur A.

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“…Many developing countries with diets low in fat and with evident malnutrition problems also have early marriage and coition, and high fertility rates (Llewellyn-Jones, 1974). In contrast, there is evidence that within industrialized nations, couples tend to defer births when economic conditions are poor and have them when conditions are more favourable (Kiser et al, 1968). Economic conditions in the United States since 1935 have generally improved, which is consistent with this latter observation.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 71%

Nutrition and age at first birth in breast-cancer risk

Pawlega¹,

Wallace²

1980

Br J Cancer

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Summary.-Urban/rural breast-cancer incidence ratios in the state of Iowa for 1950 and 1969-71 were contrasted with corresponding urban and rural distributions of age-at-first-birth and population nutrition, variables measured 15 years before each morbidity survey and putatively related to breast-cancer incidence. Over the study interval, the decline in the urban/rural breast-cancer incidence ratio correlated better with changing nutritional patterns than with changing age-at-first-birth.

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Nutrition and age at first birth in breast-cancer risk

Pawlega¹,

Wallace²

1980

Br J Cancer

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“…However, higher suburban fertility was restricted to the high-status suburbs. Kiser et al (1968) extended the analysis of spatial fertility variation to the whole of US. Their study showed that fertility varied inversely with the size of the place of residence and that rural women who lived closer to a large city were less fertile than those who lived in more distant rural areas.…”

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“…First, we expect fertility levels to vary significantly by residential context, being higher in suburbs of cities (and in rural areas) than in central cities (Freedman et al 1959;Kiser et al 1968;Snyder 2006). High fertility in suburbs relative to that in central cities may be related to compositional factors (e.g., fewer students live in suburbs), selective residential moves of couples intending to have a child, and contextual effects which may relate to people's attitudes to childbearing and raising children.…”

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“…A major geographical dimension which has been neglected in these recent studies is city suburbs. A number of early studies from the US drew attention to the relatively high fertility rates in the suburbs of urban areas (Goldstein and Mayer 1965;Kiser et al 1968) and some recent US studies also emphasise the need to separate metropolitan central-city and suburban environments when exploring family formation (Heaton et al 1989;Snyder et al 2004;Snyder 2006;Brown and Snyder 2006), although these studies do not focus on fertility in particular. However, we find virtually no scientific studies which consider suburban fertility in contemporary Europe.…”

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High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Kulu¹,

Boyle²,

Andersson³

2009

DemRes

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While numerous studies have compared urban and rural fertility rates across Europe, virtually no studies have distinguished suburbs as a distinct residential context. This study examines fertility variation across different residential contexts in four Northern European countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural focus of most previous studies of within-nation variations in fertility by distinguishing between urban centres and suburbs of cities and towns. We base our study on aggregate and individual-level register data and our analysis shows that fertility levels are significantly higher in suburbs than in urban centres; this pattern has persisted over the past quarter of a century for all four countries. A parity-specific analysis of Swedish register data reveals that total fertility varies between central cities and suburbs due to the relatively high first-and second-birth propensities in the suburbs. Further analysis shows that fertility variation between the central cities and suburbs persists after controlling for women's socio-economic characteristics. We discuss the role of various factors in accounting for high suburban fertility including omitted individual characteristics, contextual factors and selective residential moves of couples planning to have a child, suggesting that more study is required of this underresearched topic.

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“…This relationship is now diminishing or even disappearing in some low fertility countries. Many studies have shown the persisting strong inverse relationship between education and fertility (Kiser 1960;Blake 1967, Slycos and Weller 1967, Slycos 1968Minkler 1970;Mitchel 1971 ;Bhatnagar 1975).…”

Section: Education and Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fertility differentials: A study on the Buddhists and the Hindus in Sikkim, India

Bhasin

2000

Int. J. Anthropol.

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Trends and Variations in Fertility in the United States

Cited by 66 publications

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Nutrition and age at first birth in breast-cancer risk

Nutrition and age at first birth in breast-cancer risk

High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Fertility differentials: A study on the Buddhists and the Hindus in Sikkim, India

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