Family systems and fertility : fertility behaviour in Europe from a network perspective

Moenkediek, Bastian

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“…Family systems in turn reflect the customary, normative manner in which family practices and household dynamics unfold (Mönkediek, 2016;Skinner, 1997). Additionally, these systems are intertwined with gender regimes and may promote a certain gender order, causing gender inequalities within the household (Das Gupta, 1997;Hilevych, 2016).…”

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Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Riswick

2018

The History of the Family

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Child survival depends on the allocation of resources within the household. The size and composition of the sibling set influences parental division of resources and can in turn affect survival chances.In spite of recent advances in research on sibling effects, previous studies have often used the resource dilution hypothesis, which neglects the specific historical context which shapes household structure and organisation. This study therefore focuses specifically on the variation in historical context by examining sibling effects on infant and child mortality in three regions of the Netherlands in the period 1863-1910. It does so by connecting the gendered and the conditional resource-dilution model with each other as a conceptual framework. Changing household composition is taken into account by using longitudinal data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, time-varying variables and Cox proportional-hazard models to study sibling size and composition. The results show that the number and gender of siblings play an important role in determining child mortality, but are less significant in determining infant mortality. The number of same-sex siblings has a negative impact on boys' survival chances in the Netherlands, which suggests that after the age of one, boys experienced more competition from their brothers. The reason for this could be their assigned roles within the household and on the family farm. A negative influence of the number of sisters is only found for child mortality chances for girls in the nuclear northwest family region. Here, fewer children were needed to work inside or outside the household, and girls and boys may even have been interchangeable. The results underscore the importance of looking at the interaction between the specific historical context and gender when trying to understand how sibship size and composition influenced children's mortality risks and shaped inequality within the household. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Riswick

2018

The History of the Family

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“…The positive association between higher fertility outcomes and a greater share of family members in an individual's social network has been confirmed in recent empirical studies (e.g. Sear & Coall, 2011;Mönkediek, 2016).…”

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“…Nevertheless, a growing number of studies has addressed in more detail the various ways in which these micro-and meso-level factors, alone or in tandem, are associated with fertility behaviour (e.g. Keim et al, 2009;Kok & Van Bavel, 2006;Goldstein & Klüsener, 2014;Dribe, 2003;Mönkediek, 2016;Hilevych, 2016).…”

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“…A large number of -both older and more recent -empirical studies have demonstrated for example that parents and children show correlations in terms of children ever born (Pearson et al, 1899;Duncan et al, 1965;Murphy & Wang, 2003;Murphy & Knudsen, 2002;Johnson & Stokes, 1976;Zimmer & Fulton, 1980;Anderton et al, 1987) or in age at first birth (Steenhof & Liefbroer, 2008;Barber, 2001). Since fertility decisions are not made in a social vacuum, recent studies also take the context, including social networks, in which fertility decisions are made into account (Kok, 2009;Bras et al, 2013;Bras, 2014;Mönkediek, 2016;Hilevych, 2016;. Fertility outcomes may be responsive to macro-level socio-economic or cultural conditions, but are also guided by other aspects such as knowledge about how to control family size, the availability of support of relevant others, social acceptance and the organisation of kinship.…”

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“…Several empirical studies have examined the association between fertility outcomes and the degree of kin presence in the social network of individuals (Hilevych, 2016;Mönkediek, 2016;Madhavan et al, 2003;Bernardi et al, 2007;Keim et al, 2009;Mace & Colleran, 2008;Borgerhoff Mulder, 2007;Mathews & Sear, 2013a;Bras, 2014). A larger degree of kin presence in social networks is in general hypothesized to be associated with higher fertility (Newson et al, 2007).…”

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Entrance into parenthood at the onset of low fertility in Ukraine: The role of family relationships and perceived security

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BACKGROUND In post-Soviet countries, low fertility has been achieved through postponement of second birth, while entrance into parenthood still takes place relatively early in life and within marriage. Studies suggest that grandparental support with childcare drives this reproductive behaviour. However, we still know little about the exact way in which decisions about first parenthood are shaped by family relationships, especially with respect to the expected and actual support they exert. OBJECTIVE This paper explores how family relationships-spousal and intergenerationalinfluenced decisions to enter parenthood in Ukraine between 1950 and 1975, when fertility there declined below the replacement level for the first time. METHODS A total of 66 qualitative life-history interviews were conducted with women and men from the Ukrainian cities of Lviv (west) and Kharkiv (east); age-specific fertility rates and the total fertility rate in 1960 were measured for the two provinces.

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Family systems and fertility : fertility behaviour in Europe from a network perspective

Cited by 3 publications

References 190 publications

Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Family influences on fertility in Europe, 1850-1920

Entrance into parenthood at the onset of low fertility in Ukraine: The role of family relationships and perceived security

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