Women as Agents in Fertility Decision‐making: Australia, 1870–1910

McDonald, Peter; Moyle, Helen

doi:10.1111/padr.12140

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“…More recent studies also attribute an important role to women in fertility decision making as related to the fertility transition in Western societies (McDonald and Moyle 2018). As labor markets become more competitive and increasingly segmented, Liepmann (2018) finds that East German women of all skill levels postpone childbearing in order not to put their labor market situation at risk.…”

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Globalization and Gender‐Specific Patterns in Individual Fertility Decisions

Piriu¹

2021

Population & Development Rev

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In the German post‐reunification context dominated by economic uncertainty and structural change, this paper studies the effects of import shocks from China on the fertility decisions of individuals working in the German manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2016. While focusing on trade shocks related to Chinese imported goods, the paper explores individual fertility via the labor market outcomes of manufacturing workers, roughly a fifth of German employment. I investigate the gender‐specific effects of Chinese import competition on individual fertility and explain the channels mediating each of them. I find that globalization affects overall fertility negatively, but the effect is positive for women and negative for men. Results indicate a reduction in the employment opportunity of individuals, an increase in marginal employment and higher economic insecurity. There is a substitution effect in the labor supply of women, here prevalently concentrated in low‐technology sectors: as female earnings fall and their opportunity cost of work is lower, the prospect of having children possibly becomes a more rewarding alternative. Given concerns over low fertility in Germany, findings are particularly important for understanding the German social and economic structure that enabled the country's post‐reunification transformation but also allowed heavy labor market segmentation and atypical work.

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Globalization and Gender‐Specific Patterns in Individual Fertility Decisions

Piriu¹

2021

Population & Development Rev

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“…The two methods scholars have put forward as the main methods of birth control used during the historical fertility decline-withdrawal and abstinence-are both within the control of men. McDonald and Moyle (2018) argue that women played an important role in the fertility transition and female methods of contraception were more important in Britain and Western Europe than many scholars have acknowledged.…”

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“…Feminist organisations did not openly support the use of artificial means of birth control. However, some individual feminists advocated the use of contraception and a few, such as Brettena Smyth in Melbourne, sold contraceptives (Quiggin 1988;Bongiorno 2012;McDonald and Moyle 2018). Feminists were divided in their views about contraception, with some opposing birth control because they thought it would encourage excessive male sexuality (Bongiorno 2012).…”

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Australia’s Fertility Transition: A study of 19th-century Tasmania

Moyle¹

2020

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Introduction: Theories of the historical fertility decline The historical fertility transition In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most European countries and English-speaking countries outside Europe experienced a demographic transition. According to McDonald: Demographic transition refers to the process whereby populations shift from regimes of high mortality and high fertility in approximate long-run equilibrium (zero population growth) to a new equilibrium at low levels of mortality and fertility.

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“…There is also a deepening educational gradient in TFR with lower educated women experiencing a substantial decline, in particular with regard to second birth transitions. In the period between 2011 and 2016, TFR for higher and lower educated women was 1.86 and 2.00, respectively, but a higher share of tertiary‐educated mothers progressed to second births: 67 percent compared to 63 percent among the lower educated (McDonald and Moyle 2019).…”

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Maternal Free Time: A Missing Element in Fertility Studies

Jarosz,

Matysiak,

Osiewalska

2023

Population & Development Rev

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Studies on mothers’ time allocation and fertility have predominantly accentuated the importance of paid work for fertility decisions and, in consequence, of policies that allow combining paid work and family life. In this view, work time is typically seen as the time taken away from the family and vice versa. This paradigm does not recognize that mothers may need time for rest and leisure, and that rest and leisure time should be separate from both professional and family time. This study investigates whether the amount of free time available to mothers and maternal leisure behaviors, level of tiredness, and satisfaction with the amount of leisure time are associated with second birth transitions. We use the data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, waves 1–20, and model time to second birth using event history models. We find that a mother's free time, tiredness, leisure activities, and satisfaction with leisure are significantly associated with second birth risk. A mother's education is an important moderator in some of these associations. This study brings attention to the complexity of mothers’ personal lives and emphasizes the need to look at them from a fine‐grained perspective.

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Women as Agents in Fertility Decision‐making: Australia, 1870–1910

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Globalization and Gender‐Specific Patterns in Individual Fertility Decisions

Globalization and Gender‐Specific Patterns in Individual Fertility Decisions

Australia’s Fertility Transition: A study of 19th-century Tasmania

Maternal Free Time: A Missing Element in Fertility Studies

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