Deliberate birth spacing before the fertility transition in Europe: Evidence from nineteenth-century Belgium
Deliberate birth spacing before the fertility transition in Europe: Evidence from nineteenth-century Belgium
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欧洲生育转变之前的故意生育间隔：来自十九世纪比利时的证据
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2004
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J. Bavel
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J. Bavel
许多学者认为，刻意的生育间隔可能在现代生育转型之前和期间发挥了作用。这一观点有很好的历史和理论理由，但事实证明，很难令人信服地证明生育间隔实际上在一定程度上是由刻意控制生育的尝试决定的。这篇论文提出了一种为已婚夫妇获取证据的方法。该方法被应用于19世纪居住在比利时城镇的三个队列中。研究结果表明，即使在生育率转变之前，工薪阶层的夫妇就已经通过刻意的间隔来控制自己的生育率。
Many scholars have argued that deliberate birth spacing may have played a role before and during the modern fertility transition. There are good historical and theoretical reasons for this view, but it has proved to be hard to demonstrate convincingly that birth intervals were in fact partly determined by attempts at deliberate fertility control. This paper suggests a method of securing evidence on the issue for married couples. The method is applied to three cohorts living in a Belgian town in the nineteenth century. The findings indicate that, even before the fertility transition, couples in the working class were controlling their fertility by deliberate spacing.