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Zheng J, Wang X, Xie S, Wang H, Shen J, Zhang T. The mediating role of trust in government in intergenerational transmission of fertility intentions. Front Public Health 2024; 12:1338122. [PMID: 38496397 PMCID: PMC10941980 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1338122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024] Open
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China's one-child policy was in effect from 1982 to 2015. However, the literature examining the association between people's trust in local government and intergenerational transmission of fertility intentions is scarce. To fill this gap, we investigated the impact of individuals' sibship size on their ideal number of children, the mediating effect of their trust in local government on the issue of fertility between two successive generations, and the moderating effect of education level on sibship size related to trust in local governments. Based on the 2019 Chinese Social Survey data, 2,340 respondents aged 18-35 participated in the analysis. The results showed that (i) individuals' number of siblings significantly positively predicted their ideal number of children; (ii) individuals' number of siblings significantly negatively predicted their trust in the local government, which in turn significantly negatively influenced fertility intentions; (iii) the mediating mechanism was significant in residents with higher levels of education, but not in people with lower degrees of education. Fertility-boosting incentives can prioritize couples who are the only child in their family. It is necessary for local governments to improve their credibility and strengthen their pregnancy-related communication with groups with higher levels of education.
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- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, Macao SAR, China
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Requena M, Reher DS. Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Spain among cohorts born during the first half of twentieth century. ECONOMICS AND HUMAN BIOLOGY 2023; 50:101244. [PMID: 37148630 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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It is known that historically fertility is correlated between generations of the same family. These links tend to be explained either in terms of the biogenetic determinants of reproduction or by the transmission of intra-familial values associated with reproduction and family life. Less is known about the micro-determinants of these links or about the extent to which the progressive modernization of reproductive outcomes over the past century has affected behavior. In this paper, we will address these issues for Spain with data from the Socio-Demographic Survey (SDS) carried out in 1991 and including data on cohorts born between 1900 and 1946. These data enable us to explore the micro determinants of fertility at different points of time during this period. Our results point to the existence of a significant correlation between intergenerational reproductive outcomes that persists and strengthens throughout this period of demographic change. Results confirm the importance of birth order in large family groups where firstborn offspring are more likely to have larger families than subsequent siblings. There is also evidence that the strength of these intergenerational ties increases with the onset of more modern demographic behavior characterized by sharply declining fertility. The results presented here promise to condition future debates on the subject.
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- Miguel Requena
- Grupo de Estudios 'Población y Sociedad', Spain; Departamento de Sociologia II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, C/ Obispo Trejo 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Requena M, Reher D, Sanz-Gimeno A. Fertility and contraception: The experience of Spanish women born in the first half of the twentieth century. POPULATION STUDIES 2023; 77:153-162. [PMID: 36256443 DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2022.2127858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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New data based on retrospective interviews with older informants enable us to review the history of contraceptive use among Spanish women over much of the twentieth century. This source is unique because it includes cohorts of women whose reproductive lives took place before, during, and after the baby boom. Traditional contraceptive methods (withdrawal and periodic abstinence) were central to the experience of the first set of women, while the last set made full use of modern as well as some traditional methods. For the first cohorts, traditional methods spearheaded the historic decline in fertility, while among the last set of women modern methods led to a precipitous decline towards the below-replacement fertility that continues in Spain today. There is no evidence that the modest increases in fertility during the baby boom in Spain were the result of a decline in the use of contraception among married women.
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- Miguel Requena
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.,Grupo de Estudios 'Población y Sociedad'
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- Grupo de Estudios 'Población y Sociedad'.,Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Sánchez-Barricarte JJ. Mortality-fertility synergies during the demographic transition in the developed world. Population Studies 2017; 71:155-170. [PMID: 28398130 DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2017.1294701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The classic theory used to explain the demographic transition assumes that mortality is the key explanatory variable influencing the decline in fertility. However, the empirical results obtained in what is known as the Princeton European Fertility Project have led many specialists to question this assumption. Using both national and provincial aggregated data for 25 countries over a long time span, the analysis reported in this paper found that mortality does indeed play a fundamental role in accounting for the main demographic changes that occurred both before and during the transitional period. Others' research based on individual data has shown clearly that the number of surviving children was indeed an important factor for reproductive decisions. My analysis, using aggregated data, reached largely similar conclusions regarding the role of mortality in changing reproductive trends, via its impact on nuptiality and marital fertility at different stages of the demographic transition.
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Kumar A, Bordone V, Muttarak R. Like Mother(-in-Law) Like Daughter? Influence of the Older Generation's Fertility Behaviours on Women's Desired Family Size in Bihar, India. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION-REVUE EUROPEENNE DE DEMOGRAPHIE 2016; 32:629-660. [PMID: 27980351 PMCID: PMC5126196 DOI: 10.1007/s10680-016-9379-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of women in rural Bihar, India and the fertility behaviours of their mother and mother-in-law. Scheduled interviews of 440 pairs of married women aged 16–34 years and their mothers-in-law were conducted in 2011. Preferred family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children and then categorized into three categories (low, medium and high). Women’s preferred family size is estimated using ordered logistic regression. We find that the family size preferences are not associated with mother’s fertility but with mother’s education. Mother-in-law’s desired number of grandchildren is positively associated with women’s preferred family size. However, when the woman has higher education than her mother-in-law, her preferred family size gets smaller, suggesting that education provides women with greater autonomy in their decision-making on childbearing.
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- Abhishek Kumar
- International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
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Kolk M, Cownden D, Enquist M. Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist? Proc Biol Sci 2014; 281:20132561. [PMID: 24478294 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Correlations in family size across generations could have a major influence on human population size in the future. Empirical studies have shown that the associations between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children are substantial and growing over time. Despite their potential long-term consequences, intergenerational fertility correlations have largely been ignored by researchers. We present a model of the fertility transition as a cultural process acting on new lifestyles associated with fertility. Differences in parental and social influences on the acquisition of these lifestyles result in intergenerational correlations in fertility. We show different scenarios for future population size based on models that disregard intergenerational correlations in fertility, models with fertility correlations and a single lifestyle, and models with fertility correlations and multiple lifestyles. We show that intergenerational fertility correlations will result in an increase in fertility over time. However, present low-fertility levels may persist if the rapid introduction of new cultural lifestyles continues into the future.
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- Martin Kolk
- Demography Unit, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, , 10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Center for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, , 10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, , 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Kolk M. Multigenerational transmission of family size in contemporary Sweden. Population Studies 2013; 68:111-29. [PMID: 23957693 DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2013.819112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The study of the intergenerational transmission of fertility has a long history in demography, but until now research has focused primarily on parents' influence on their children's fertility patterns and has largely overlooked the possible influence of other kin. This study examines the transmission of fertility patterns from parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts, using event history models to determine the risk of first, second, and third births. Swedish register data are used to study the 1970-82 birth cohorts. The findings indicate strong associations between the fertility of index persons and that of their parents, and also independent associations between the completed fertility of index persons and that of their grandparents and parents' siblings. The results suggest that, when examining background effects in fertility research, it is relevant to take a multigenerational perspective and to consider the characteristics of extended kin.
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Murphy M. Cross-national patterns of intergenerational continuities in childbearing in developed countries. BIODEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL BIOLOGY 2013; 59:101-26. [PMID: 24215254 PMCID: PMC4160295 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2013.833779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Earlier work has shown that the association between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children has become stronger over time in some societies. This article updates and broadens the geographic coverage to assess the magnitude of intergenerational continuities in childbearing in developed and middle-income societies using data for 46 populations from 28 developed countries drawn from a number of recent large-scale survey programs. Robust positive intergenerational fertility correlations are found across these countries into the most recent period, and although there is no indication that the strength of the relationship is declining, the increasing trend does not appear to be continuing.
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- Michael Murphy
- Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, London, UK E-mail:
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Jennings JA, Leslie PW. Differences in intergenerational fertility associations by sex and race in Saba, Dutch Caribbean, 1876-2004. THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY : AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY 2013; 18:135-153. [PMID: 24436631 PMCID: PMC3891741 DOI: 10.1080/1081602x.2012.731016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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This study examines the intergenerational transmission of fertility behavior in Saba, Dutch Caribbean from 1876 to 2004 using reconstituted genealogies. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients of several fertility measures and event-history models of age at first birth are used to explore relationships between the fertility of mothers and their children. The strength of intergenerational fertility ties varies by race and gender. Individuals that are better positioned to realize their fertility preferences have the strongest intergenerational associations, while individuals with the most limited reproductive options have the weakest intergenerational associations. This evidence supports hypotheses that posit the intergenerational transmission of attitudes, goals, and behaviors and the ability to act on those preferences as drivers of the presence or magnitude of links between the fertility of parents and their children.
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- Julia A Jennings
- Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA ; Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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Jennings JA, Sullivan AR, Hacker JD. Intergenerational transmission of reproductive behavior during the demographic transition. THE JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 2012; 42:543-69. [PMID: 22530253 PMCID: PMC3373267 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_a_00304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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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.
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Shenk M, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Beise J, Clark G, Irons W, Leonetti D, Low B, Bowles S, Hertz T, Bell A, Piraino P. Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2010. [DOI: 10.1086/648658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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