Family Planning and Differential Fertility in a Dutch City

Heeren, H. J.; Moors, Hein G.

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“…Lindert (1978) and Easterlin and Crimmins (1985) were skeptical that higher rents would discourage fertility because parents of larger families can substitute towards lower-quality 3 Kitagawa and Hauser (1967) studied the city of Chicago. Heeren and Moors (1969) found housing pressures to be an important determinant of desired fertility in their study of young couples in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Felsen and Solaún (1975), using data from a "natural" experiment in Bogota, Columbia, found that couples living in apartments were less likely to have children than couples living in houses.…”

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Do higher rents discourage fertility? Evidence from U.S. cities, 1940–2000

Simon

Tamura

2009

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This paper documents the existence of a negative cross-sectional correlation between the price of living space and fertility using U.S. Census data over the period 1940-2000. This correlation is not spurious, nor does it reflect the tendency of larger families to locate within lessexpensive areas of a given metropolitan area. We examine the extent to which the results reflect the sorting of married couples across metropolitan areas on desired fertility. The relationship between the unit price of living space and fertility in fact tends to be more negative for households that have moved recently. However, the probability of migration between metropolitan areas is smaller for larger families, even those originating in more expensive cities.Moreover, Durbin-Wu-Hausman tests reveal only limited evidence of endogeneity. The weaker effects of the price of living space for less mobile couples seems to be at least in part a result of their choosing to live in less-expensive portions within a given metropolitan area. 1 "Increased splendor, with higher prices for the necessaries of life, keep men from marrying in the cities

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Do higher rents discourage fertility? Evidence from U.S. cities, 1940–2000

Simon

Tamura

2009

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…In this context Chevan (1971) has demonstrated that while couples who moved house had a higher average initial household density, the move tended to produce a similar terminal density to that of the general population. However, the ability to make such a choice is dependent on a couple's disposable income, and Heeren & Moors (1969) in their study of families in a Dutch city found that 'housing was functioning as an intervening variable in the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility'. Therefore overcrowding reflects income patterns in a market economy because of the inability of those with a low income to purchase additional units, and also because a larger number of adult dependants may be living with low income families (Cutright, 1971).…”

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Socio-economic factors associated with unwanted births to married women: a geographical analysis using census indicators

Brennan¹,

Hebel²

1975

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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The proportion of unwanted births to married women who were delivered in a district maternity hospital during a 3-month period in 1971 was computed for each ward in the administrative area. The percentage varied from 5 to 20% with an average of 10%. These results were compared with the distributions of socio-economic variables derived from the 1971 Census. Parity was shown to be the most important indicator; Kendall's rank correlation coefficient was 0-56 (/ ) <0-01). When the effect of parity was eliminated by the use of Kendall's partial rank correlation coefficient, overcrowding and family structure were shown to be statistically significant (P < 0-05).

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Numbers of children planned, expected and preferred by women in Melbourne

1974

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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From data from the 1971 Melbourne Family Survey a comparison has been made of the number of children that respondents first planned to have, their expected family size, and their preferred family size, to determine factors associated with their ability to adhere to the original plans, and satisfaction with their ultimate family size. The data suggest that, after beginning their childbearing, some women change their minds about how many children they want, while others are unable to have as many children as they want or else have more than they really want. A substantial proportion of women would have preferred to have a family size different from the one they have attained, and more consistent with the number of children they had originally planned.

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Family Planning and Differential Fertility in a Dutch City

Cited by 4 publications

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Do higher rents discourage fertility? Evidence from U.S. cities, 1940–2000

Do higher rents discourage fertility? Evidence from U.S. cities, 1940–2000

Socio-economic factors associated with unwanted births to married women: a geographical analysis using census indicators

Numbers of children planned, expected and preferred by women in Melbourne

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