Title

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

Authors

Authors

C. Bradatan;G. Firebaugh

Comments

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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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