Stop! Go! What can we learn about family planning from birth timing in settler South Africa, 1835-1950?
(2021) In Demography 58(3). p.901-925- Abstract
- We revisit the discussion on family limitation through stopping and spacing behavior prior to and during the fertility transition with a sample of 12 800 settler women's birth histories in nineteenth and twentieth century South Africa. Using cure models that allow us to separate those who stop child bearing from those who continue, we find no evidence of parity-specific spacing prior to the transition. We do nd evidence of non-parity based birth postponement prior to the transition. On commencement of the fertility transition, we first see increased stopping and parity independent postponement followed by increased parity-specific spacing later in the transition phase.
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- author
- Cilliers, Jeanne LU and Mariotti, Martine
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- South Africa, cure models, parity-specific fertility
- in
- Demography
- volume
- 58
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 901 - 925
- publisher
- Population Assn Amer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85107163717
- pmid:33881510
- ISSN
- 1533-7790
- DOI
- 10.1215/00703370-9164749
- language
- English
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- yes
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- e7216d86-691e-4f26-adba-8631117bec02
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