Title

History, Population Policies, And Fertility Decline In Eastern Europe: A Case Study

Keywords

Abortion; Eastern Europe; Fertility decline; History; Population policy; Romania

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. © 2007 Sage Publications.

Publication Date

4-1-2007

Publication Title

Journal of Family History

Volume

32

Issue

2

Number of Pages

179-192

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0363199006297732

Socpus ID

34047220966 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34047220966

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