Low Fertilities in the Past and Present

Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at s...

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description Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levels – whether before, during, or after the so-called ‘fertility transition’. Population studies have also come to give more attention to the role of structural inequalities, including around family, class, gender, and health, and of people’s diverse and changing reproductive strategies that underpin varying low fertilities at sub-national levels. This collection develops compositional demography approaches to address the advancements in sub-national variations. It brings together studies in anthropology, demography, history, and sociology, that have together developed an analytical lens for examining the low fertility phenomenon not as a mere average but as a composite of different reproductive behaviours and regimes. The volume is among the first to collect historical patterns of low fertilities and their underlying structural conditions in a long-term comparative perspective. It is also the first to detail comprehensively the compositional demography approach, which can be also applied to the study of various demographic phenomena around fertility, mortality, ageing, migration, and other population issues.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1722352026-02-24T05:12:10Z Low Fertilities in the Past and Present Hilevych, Yuliya Kreager, Philip Fertility Reproduction Population Heterogeneity Variations Inequalities Family Class Gender Health thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levels – whether before, during, or after the so-called ‘fertility transition’. Population studies have also come to give more attention to the role of structural inequalities, including around family, class, gender, and health, and of people’s diverse and changing reproductive strategies that underpin varying low fertilities at sub-national levels. This collection develops compositional demography approaches to address the advancements in sub-national variations. It brings together studies in anthropology, demography, history, and sociology, that have together developed an analytical lens for examining the low fertility phenomenon not as a mere average but as a composite of different reproductive behaviours and regimes. The volume is among the first to collect historical patterns of low fertilities and their underlying structural conditions in a long-term comparative perspective. It is also the first to detail comprehensively the compositional demography approach, which can be also applied to the study of various demographic phenomena around fertility, mortality, ageing, migration, and other population issues. 2026-02-24T05:12:08Z 2026-02-24T05:12:08Z 2026-02-23T14:04:33Z 2026 book 0068-1202 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110075 9781805966661 9781805966678 9781805966685 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172235 eng Proceedings of the British Academy open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/110075/1/9781805966661.pdf The British Academy 1b2afe11-1c61-4b23-bd3f-f3958094621f 9781805966661 9781805966678 9781805966685 440 London open access
spellingShingle Fertility
Reproduction
Population
Heterogeneity
Variations
Inequalities
Family
Class
Gender
Health
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography
Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
title Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
title_full Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
title_fullStr Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
title_full_unstemmed Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
title_short Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
title_sort low fertilities in the past and present
topic Fertility
Reproduction
Population
Heterogeneity
Variations
Inequalities
Family
Class
Gender
Health
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography
topic_facet Fertility
Reproduction
Population
Heterogeneity
Variations
Inequalities
Family
Class
Gender
Health
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography
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