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The decline of illegitimacy and the control of marital fertility during the demographic transition: testing the innovation-diffusion hypothesis using cohort fertility data from a Belgian town, 1850-1910

Der Rückgang der Illegitimität und die Kontrolle der ehelichen Fertilität während des demographischen Übergangs: Test der Innovationsdiffusionshypothese an Kohorten-Fertilitätsdaten einer belgischen Stadt ; 1850-1910

'One of the major arguments made in the literature in support of the view that the European fertility transition was the result of the spread of an innovation called contraception, is that illegitimate fertility fell together with marital fertility. Indeed, the parallel decline of both illegitimacy and marital fertility in the final part of the nineteenth century suggests that individuals in Europ…

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Creator

  • Bavel, Jan van

Subject

  • Sociology & anthropology
  • Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
  • History
  • Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
  • Social History, Historical Social Research
  • Population Studies, Sociology of Population
  • diffusion
  • birth trend
  • fertility
  • liberalization
  • …
  • Birth control
  • History

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel