MPC Member Publications

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Title: Rethinking the Early Decline of Marital Fertility in the United States

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2003

Abstract: In this article, I rely on new estimates of nineteenth-century mortality and the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to construct new estimates of white fertility in the nineteenth-century United States. Unlike previous estimates that showed a long-term decline in overall fertility beginning at or before the turn of the nineteenth century, the new estimates suggest that U.S. fertility did not begin its secular decline until circa 1840. Moreover, new estimates of white marital fertility, based on own-children methods, suggest that marital fertility decline did not begin in the nation as a whole until after the Civil War (1861-1865).

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Authors: Hacker, David J

Periodical (Full): Demography

Issue: 4

Volume: 40

Pages: 605-620

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IPUMS NHGIS NAPP IHIS ATUS Terrapop