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| Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O. |
| In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Irelands late entry to the fertility transition focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society. These arguments are often backed up by claims that the Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of Irish Americans in 1910 and produces three main findings. First, the Irish in America had smaller families than both the rural and urban Irish and their fertility patterns show clear evidence of fertility control. Second, despite the evidence of control, Irish-Americans... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Ireland; United States; Fertility; Demography; Immigration; Labor and Human Capital; J13; N3. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28386 |
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| Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O. |
| Ireland's relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress the role of Catholicism and a conservative social ethos. This paper reports the first results from a project that uses new samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The present paper uses a sample from the Dublin suburb of Pembroke to take a first look at the questions, data, and methods. This sample is much larger than those used in previous studies of Irish fertility, and is the first from an urban area. We find considerable support for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Ireland; Fertility; Demography; Labor and Human Capital; J1; N3. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28434 |
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