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Age of entry into marriage and the date of the initiation of voluntary birth control

Author(s) -

Ansley J. Coale

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061821

Subject(s) - fertility , birth control , demography , turnover , control (management) , birth rate , developed country , marital status , family planning , demographic economics , population , geography , research methodology , economics , sociology , management

It is widely known that modem economic development has been accompanied by the initiation and spread of effective limitation of fertility, and that generally the populations which experienced development at a late date also had a belated reduction in childbearing. Here a surprising relation is found between (and within) broad regions: the areas in which traditional age of entry into marriage was late were the areas in which marital fertility was reduced first.

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