The Decline of Fertility in Europe: The Revised Proceedings of a Conference on the Princeton European Fertility Project.

Hochstadt, Steve; Coale, Ansley J.; Watkins, Susan Cotts

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“…The Industrial Revolution and the associated fertility transition came with a decline of the influence of the Church in individual lives, namely secularization (see Coale and Watkins (1986) and Baudin (2010) among others). For this reason, former bans on remarriage and out-of-wedlock births for example became less and less stringent from the 20th century on.…”

Section: Institutions Marriage Religion and Family Typesmentioning

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Economics and Family Structures

Baudin¹,

Rock²,

Gobbi³

2023

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

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Household decisions are one of the key elements impacting many dimensions of any economy. or instance at the macro level, decisions regarding how much to save affect the economy’s investment possibilities or decisions regarding children’s education affect the overall level of human capital. Economists who study household behavior have almost solely focused on the understanding of nuclear families, i.e., parents living with their own children, childless couples, or singles. However, it is well documented that family types are heterogeneous across and within countries, both in the past and in present times. Among the different types, a classical distinction can be made between nuclear, stem, and complex households. Stem families are those allowing for three generations to live in a same household. Complex families allow for several married siblings to live together in a household. It is important to note that this is not a marginal phenomenon. For instance in China or India, the two most populous countries in the world, the majority of the population lives in either stem or complex families types. However, there is still a lot to understand about them. What are the driving factors leading individuals to form one type of family over another? Are these drivers economic or cultural? What are the intra-household dynamics of these families and how do they function? What are the implications of these differences for implementing effective family policies? The focus on nuclear families limits our capacity to answer these questions and to analyze the impact of institutional phenomena or public policies. More research to understand the determinants and functioning of other types of families hence matters both from an academic and a policy perspective.

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Section: Institutions Marriage Religion and Family Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economics and Family Structures

Baudin¹,

Rock²,

Gobbi³

2023

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

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“…Sila kultúrnych faktorov sa ukazuje ako veľmi dôležitá. Regióny s podobnými kultúrnymi charakteristikami vykazovali podobné vzorce manželstva, dokonca aj po kontrole úrovne dosiahnutej modernizácie (Coale a Watkins 1986). Podobne aj jazyk, dialekt a jazykové podobnosti sú faktorom, ktorý podporuje kultúrnu blízkosť.…”

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Sídelná homogamia snúbencov na Slovensku v rokoch 1992 – 2021

Džambazovič¹,

Šprocha²

2023

geogrcas

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The choice of a spouse is not a random process. One of its important factors is the place of residence. The main goal of the study was to describe and identify trends in patterns of marital selection behaviour in Slovakia from the point of view of selected geographic characteristics of the spousesʼ place of residence. The obtained results generally confirm the persistence of moderate residential marital homogamy. Moreover, compared to the beginning of the 1990s, its level has risen slightly. It is true that towards a higher administrative unit, the rate of residential marital homogamy increases. It turns out that persons living in municipalities, in urban areas, in the Prešov and Žilina regions, as well as in some border districts in the north and south of Slovakia, choose a spouse from the same environment more often. In the case of entering marriage with a person of foreign nationality, for both sexes, persons from Czechia have the highest share. In other cases, however, it is true that men more often choose a woman from the countries of the former "Eastern Bloc", while women have a greater preference for choosing a husband from countries west of the Iron Curtain.

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“…The onset of the fertility decline (for a review, see Hionidou 1997b, 2007, 2020) is a subject of debate in the literature. Initially, it was situated in 1890 (Siampos & Valaoras, 1971; Valaoras, 1960), while based on the same data, the Princeton European Fertility Project argued for 1913 (Coale & Watkins, 1986). However, more recent research by Hionidou has suggested an alternative timing.…”

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Maternal mortality in Greece: The evolution from traditional mammis to overmedicalized obstetric care during the 20th century

Raftakis

2023

Population Space and Place

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Greece has been absent from the literature on maternal mortality in historical Europe, as very little evidence is yet available regarding maternal mortality patterns before the 1950s. The discontinuity in the collection and publication of demographic data in Greece, as well as the nonavailability of continuous national published statistics are the most important reasons for the lack of studies on maternal mortality. Therefore, this study aims to address this gap by utilising annual published statistics at the aggregate level, focusing primarily on the first half of the 20th century, while also making a significant contribution to the postwar period. The results of the study indicate a high incidence of maternal deaths in Greece, particularly in the northern—mostly rural and later annexed—regions of the country until the late 1930s. An important reason may be the lack of obstetric care in these areas. Although major urban centres were primarily served by qualified midwives by the mid‐1920s, rural Greece had access only to untrained midwives due to the insufficient number of trained midwives that could cater the needs of the entire country. Other contributing factors may include the high prevalence of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria in certain areas of the country, poor nutritional status throughout the country before the 1950s, low literacy rates, low living standards, and lack of public health infrastructures. Greece's case study is intriguing as it has transitioned from an almost absolute lack of obstetric care, with the exception of the mostly untrained rural midwives known as mammis before the 1950s, to becoming one of the most highly medicalised countries in Europe by the end of the 20th century, succeeding very low levels of maternal mortality.

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The Decline of Fertility in Europe: The Revised Proceedings of a Conference on the Princeton European Fertility Project.

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Sídelná homogamia snúbencov na Slovensku v rokoch 1992 – 2021

Maternal mortality in Greece: The evolution from traditional mammis to overmedicalized obstetric care during the 20th century

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