Two Successive Motivations for the Declining Birth Rate in the West

Ariès, Philippe

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“…The same holds for those who project their ambitions onto their children: numerous offspring dilute parental resources and therefore complicates or aggravates the social situation in the next generation (Dumont 1890(Dumont (1990. Philippe Ariès (1980), referring to Dumont, argued in an article amply cited by demographers (Dalla Zuanna 2007) that the decline of fertility in the West is the consequence of the emergence of a child-oriented society. In such a society, parents' main investment consists of helping their children to get ahead.…”

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Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition

Bavel¹,

Moreels²,

Putte³

et al. 2011

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Section: Resource Dilution and Fertility Declinementioning

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Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition

Bavel¹,

Moreels²,

Putte³

et al. 2011

DemRes

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“…Couples knew that it was important to stick to these rules. To affect the age at marriage of their children, parents had available a variety of forms of social control, allowing them to protect the family property, business, and honor, including the legal requirements for parental consent, the transmission of property, parental supervision, dowries, and the manipulation of interaction opportunities (Ariès 1982).…”

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“…Socialization to an ever-increasing degree took place outside the family environment and was delegated to formal institutions. Increasingly the family organized itself in terms of the children and their future, and the parents' chief psychological and material investment consisted in helping the children get ahead (Ariès 1982). A loss of social control of parents over the attitudes and behavior of their children has taken place owing to a rise of individual paid labor, a declining importance of inheritance and employment within family businesses, and the rise of the welfare state.…”

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Marriage Timing over the Generations

Poppel

Monden

Mandemakers

2008

Hum Nat

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Strong relationships have been hypothesized between the timing of marriage and the familial environment of the couple. Sociologists have identified various mechanisms via which the age at marriage in the parental generation might be related to the age at marriage of the children. In our paper we study this relationship for historical populations. We use a dataset consisting of several hundreds of thousands of marriages contracted in three of the 11 Dutch provinces between 1812 and 1922. We identified the generational links between the brides, grooms, their parents, and grandparents. We studied (a) whether there is a relationship between ages at marriage of (grandfathers) fathers and sons, and ages at marriage of (grandmothers) mothers and daughters and (b) whether this relationship might be explained by social class. We find evidence for a clear effect of the family on age at marriage and substantial intergenerational transmission. The impact that the family of origin has on age at entry into marriage can partly be attributed to social class. We also observed positive effects of grandparents' age at marriage on their offspring's age at marriage.

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“…For example, Ariès (1980), referring to Dumont, argues in an article amply cited by demographers, that the decline of fertility in the West is the consequence of the emergence of a child-oriented society. In such a society, parents' main investment consists of helping their children to get ahead.…”

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The Effect of Fertility Limitation on Intergenerational Social Mobility: The Quality–quantity Trade-Off During the Demographic Transition

Bavel

2005

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary.The hypothesis that family size limitation by parents enhances the upward mobility chances of their children in (post)industrial populations has a long-standing record in many disciplines, including sociology and economics, as well as evolutionary anthropology and social biology. Yet the empirical record supporting or contradicting the theory is surprisingly limited. The aim of this contribution is to develop a test of the effect of family size limitation on children's intergenerational mobility. This test is applied to an urban population in Belgium that was in the process of experiencing its demographic transition, including the decline of fertility, at the end of the 19 th century. The results indicate that the effect of family size was strong, even after controlling for parental social status as well as birth order. Surprisingly, the effects of birth order and family size appear to be largely independent.

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Two Successive Motivations for the Declining Birth Rate in the West

Cited by 192 publications

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Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition

Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition

Marriage Timing over the Generations

The Effect of Fertility Limitation on Intergenerational Social Mobility: The Quality–quantity Trade-Off During the Demographic Transition

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