History, population policies, and fertility decline in Eastern Europe: A case study

    Authors

    C. Bradatan;G. Firebaugh

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Fam. Hist.

    Keywords

    Eastern Europe; population policy; Romania; fertility decline; abortion; history; COUNTRIES; Anthropology; Family Studies; History; History Of Social Sciences

    Abstract

    Why does Eastern Europe have the lowest fertility in the world? Most explanations focus on the consequences of upheaval in that region during the 1990s. These so-called "transition" explanations miss a major part of the story. For the Romanian case, we show that the decline infertility over the 1990s represents the continuation of a longstanding trend that was only interrupted by the extremely efficient pro-natalist policies inaugurated in the 1960s. We conclude that the conventional transition explanations of the 1990s fertility decline in Eastern Europe are incomplete because they fail to give due weight to the effect of population policies.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Family History

    Volume

    32

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    179

    Last Page

    192

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000244973000005

    ISSN

    0363-1990

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