Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949
This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949. This is achieved using individual-level longitudinal demographic data from northern Sweden linked with indivi...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c7a5ee8d24ea455a809b2af19189dda0 2023-05-15T17:44:40+02:00 Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 Johan Junkka 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/c7a5ee8d24ea455a809b2af19189dda0 EN eng International Instititute of Social History https://acc.openjournals.nl/hlcs/article/view/9335 https://doaj.org/toc/2352-6343 2352-6343 https://doaj.org/article/c7a5ee8d24ea455a809b2af19189dda0 Historical Life Course Studies, Vol 5 (2018) Voluntary organisations Voluntary associations Social networks Sweden Fertility transition Economic theory. Demography HB1-3840 article 2018 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T07:12:13Z This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949. This is achieved using individual-level longitudinal demographic data from northern Sweden linked with individual-level information on voluntary organisation membership and contextual level information on organisation activity. How living near an organisation influenced fertility is measured using mixed effect Cox regressions. The association to participation for both men and women is tested by matching members to a control group through propensity score matching before estimating differences in risks of another birth using Cox regressions. The results show that being exposed to an organisation was related to lower fertility. Joining a union or a temperance organisation showed even stronger negative associations, but only for male members, while female members showed no significant difference in fertility. The results suggest that reproductive decisions were not simple responses by the individual couple to structural changes but were also shaped within the social networks of which they were a part. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949. This is achieved using individual-level longitudinal demographic data from northern Sweden linked with individual-level information on voluntary organisation membership and contextual level information on organisation activity. How living near an organisation influenced fertility is measured using mixed effect Cox regressions. The association to participation for both men and women is tested by matching members to a control group through propensity score matching before estimating differences in risks of another birth using Cox regressions. The results show that being exposed to an organisation was related to lower fertility. Joining a union or a temperance organisation showed even stronger negative associations, but only for male members, while female members showed no significant difference in fertility. The results suggest that reproductive decisions were not simple responses by the individual couple to structural changes but were also shaped within the social networks of which they were a part. |
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Johan Junkka |
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 |
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 |
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 |
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 |
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 |
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membership in and presence of voluntary organisations during the swedish fertility transition, 1880-1949 |
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International Instititute of Social History |
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Northern Sweden |
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Historical Life Course Studies, Vol 5 (2018) |
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https://acc.openjournals.nl/hlcs/article/view/9335 https://doaj.org/toc/2352-6343 2352-6343 https://doaj.org/article/c7a5ee8d24ea455a809b2af19189dda0 |
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