Child naming, religion, and the decline of marital fertility in nineteenth-century america

Religion and fertility: The French connection

“…He finds that women who are "strong Catholic believers" are expected to have larger families than women without any religious belief. Hacker (1999) shows that the degree of Christian conservatism is a good proxy for religious sentiment for white American-born women in the nineteenth century. Conservatism is measured by a dummy variable indicating whether individuals belong to a specific religious group, such as Congregationalists, Universalists, Lutherans or Catholics.…”

The impact of socio-economic status on net fertility during the historical fertility decline: A comparative analysis of Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and the USA

“…In his study of the Swedish fertility transition, Dribe (2009) emphasized the importance of traditional supply and demand variables—education, income, mortality, urbanization and relative female wages. Although not the primary focus, several micro-level census analyses of the United States and Canada have reported significant differentials in women's fertility by spouses occupation (Haines 1978; Smith 1996; Hacker 1999; Gauvreau and Gossage 2001; Haan 2005; Gossage and Gauvreau 2007; Haines and Guest 2008). Most recently, Barnes and Guinnane (2012) have re-examined Szreter's evidence from the 1911 census of England and Wales using analysis of variance techniques and found that two-thirds of all variation in marital fertility across couples was explained by variation between social classes.…”

In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850 –1940

“…Head and Mayer (2008) investigate the social transmission of parental preferences through naming patterns in France. Hacker (1999) We can now compare the probability limits of the linked and pseudo-panel estimator. The first term in the pseudo-panel estimator is unambiguously smaller than the corresponding term in the linked estimator.…”