Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior during the Demographic Transition

Author:

Jennings Julia A.1,Sullivan Allison R.2,Hacker J. David3

Affiliation:

1. Julia A. Jennings is Postdoctoral Scholar, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of, with James W. Wood and Patricia Lyons Johnson, “Household-Level Predictors of the Presence of Servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1901,” History of the Family, XVI (2011), 278–291.

2. Allison R. Sullivan is a recent doctorate recipient in demography from the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of “Mortality Differentials by Religion in the U.S.,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, XLIX (2010), 740–753.

3. J. David Hacker is Associate Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton. He is the author of “Decennial Life Tables for the White Population of the United States, 1790–1900,” Historical Methods, XLIII (2010), 45–79; with Daniel Scott Smith, “Cultural Demography: New England Deaths and the Puritan Perception of Risk,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXVI (1996), 367–392.

Abstract

New evidence from the Utah Population Database (updp) reveals that at the onset of the fertility transition, reproductive behavior was transmitted across generations—between women and their mothers, as well as between women and their husbands' family of origin. Age at marriage, age at last birth, and the number of children ever born are positively correlated in the data, most strongly among first-born daughters and among cohorts born later in the fertility transition. Intergenerational ties, including the presence of mothers and mothers-in-law, influenced the hazard of progressing to a next birth. The findings suggest that the practice of parity-dependent marital fertility control and inter-birth spacing behavior derived, in part, from the previous generation and that the potential for mothers and mothers-in-law to help in the rearing of children encouraged higher marital fertility.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History,History and Philosophy of Science,History

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