Low Fertilities in the Past and Present : Studies in Compositional Demography.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilevych, Yuliya.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; v.284

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : British Academy, 2026.

Summary:

Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal.Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levels - whether before, during, or.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of figures

List of Tables

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

I. The rise and fall of the transition-to-replacement narrative

II. Moving beyond the transition-to-replacement narrative

The vanishing single endpoint of the transition narrative

Compositional demography of historical fertilities

III. Fertility replacements in a new key

The descent from macro: comparing regional population distributions

The rich potential of meso: synergies from combined top-down and bottom-up compositional population thinking

Understanding communication communities

References

Part I: The Descent from Macro: Comparing Regional Population Distributions

1 A Spatial Approach to European Fertility Trends since 2008

Recent trends in European fertility

Recent sub-national trends in European fertility

Urban-rural trends in fertility

The 2008 economic crisis

Differences across age groups

Conclusion

Appendix A. Data sources

Appendix B. Further tables and figures

2 Macro-Economic Conditions and Regional Variation in the Russian Total Fertility Rollercoaster, 1992-2019

Theoretical perspectives

Fertility in post-Soviet Russia and regional variation

Data and methods

Data

Methods

Regional-level results

Regional variables and descriptive statistics

Regression results

Discussion, limitations, and conclusions

3 Forerunners, Space, and the Role of Religion during the Fertility Transition in England and Wales, 1851-1911

Religion and fertility

The absence of religion in English and Welsh historical demography

The rise of the new dissent religions: 1750-1900.

Religion's influence on fertility behaviour and the new dissent

Norms

Institutions

Identity

Forerunners, tipping point, and diffusion

Data and measures

Methodology: Spatial lag model

Results

Descriptive results

Spatial lag model

New dissent religions

Education and social class

Other explanatory factors

Discussion and conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

4 Continuity and Change in Spatial Patterns of Fertility: The Case of London

Previous research on spatial variations in fertility

London

Model results

Discussion

Part II: The Rich Potential of Meso: Synergies from Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Population Thinking

5 Low Fertilities before the Fertility Transition: Childlessness and Small Families in a 19th-Century Dutch Province

Low fertilities: lacunas and new approaches

Low fertilities as a research gap

Towards a compositional approach

Situating low fertilities

Socio-economic and demographic contexts

Cultural and moral contexts

STIs

Sources, analytical sample, and limitations

A first exploration of the study population and of low-fertility families

Historical changes in low-fertility variations

Unpacking low fertilities

Childless couples

Single-child families

Two-child families

Comparing low fertilities

Conclusion and discussion

6 When Marriage Becomes Unattainable: A Cohort Analysis of Fertility in Rural South Africa

Population characteristics

Part I: Valued, unattainable, patriarchal: the distribution of marriage across and within generations

Part II: From generations to classes: cohort timing of fertility outside and before marriage.

Part III: Making choices at vital conjunctures: the 1985-94 generation

Appendix A. Datasets used and dataset quality

Socio Dem Surveillance 2019 release dataset (Herbst et al. 2019)

Core pregnancies, 2023 dataset (Herbst et al. 2023)

Appendix C

Appendix D. Analysis and limitations in Table 6.3

Part III: Understanding Communication Communities

7 A Different View on 'Low' Fertility: Perceptions of Ideal Family Size and Women's Reproductive Pathways across Generations in Central Oman

Contextualising the multiple perspectives on and moralisation of 'low' fertility

Delayed marriages and spaced births: Oman's rapid fertility transition since 1970

Sub-national fertility variations in Oman

Ethnographic context and research methodology

Wealth in children: The local framework of reproduction

When four is low - ideal family size and changed fertility intentions

Regular childbirths as compensation for deaths

Regular childbirths as symbols of modernity and prosperity

Frequent childbirths as medical hazards and risks

Motivations behind and varied paths towards lower fertility

8 Postponement of Subsequent Childbirth: Fertility Decline under Conditions of Uncertainty in Botswana and Lesotho

Fertility in Botswana and Lesotho: context and methods

African approaches to family planning

Spacing: setting the time through postpartum taboos or contraception

Postponing: waiting for a favourable situation

Ceasing and stopping: withholding fertility

Limiting: setting the number

A history of sharp decline: women, economy, and reproductive agency

Male absenteeism

Education of women and fertility decline

HIV and fertility decisions

The fertility-marriage complex

Discussion and conclusion.

References

9 Crisis-Led Fertility Declines? Theorising the Influence of Compounding Crises and Structural Violence on Low Fertility in South Africa

Background: mapping the terrain

Women's statuses and backlash

Research site, methods, and fieldwork insights

Locked between Gauteng and the North West Province: quantitative and qualitative insights

Being attentive to 'voices from the field': marriage and contraception

Striving for respectable futures: mediating the crises of AIDS, interpersonal violence, and poverty

AIDS: an overwhelming health reality

Abortions, breastfeeding, and intimate partner violence

Conclusion: augmenting gender and aspirations in studies of fertility

10 Gendered Fertility: Reproductive Desires and Practices in Two Neighbourhoods in Contemporary Havana

Socialist and post-socialist low fertility

Methodology

Gender policies and fertility in revolutionary Cuba

Post-Soviet Cuba

Habaneros' reproductive desires and practices

Centro Habana: Liliana, Reinier, and Diego

Liliana's family fertility, historically

Vedado: Cira's family

Intersectional differences in fertility

11 Intergenerational Support for Childcare: An Essential for Making the Second-Child Decision in the Two-Child Policy Era in China

From one-child to two-child family policy

Low fertility trend and family dynamics in China

Data collection

Data analysis

Anticipated heavy load of childcare upon new birth

The pattern of family life with children: grandparental support as the main reliable source for childcare

Perceptions of grandparental support: similarities and variances

References.

12 'In this generation, they mostly had one child': Reproductive Norms, Reproductive Uncertainties, and One-Child Families in Soviet Ukraine

Reproductive uncertainties, costs of children, and composition of low fertility

Sources and methods

Reproductive norms and reproductive uncertainties underlying one-child families

Conflicting childbearing and -rearing norms

Material and care uncertainties of one-child families

Relationships and health uncertainties of one-child families

Discussion and conclusions

Conclusions and Outstanding Issues

I. For a parametrics of low fertilities

II. Demography as normal science?

Index.

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ISBN:

1-80596-668-5

1-80596-667-7

9781805966678