Seasonality of birth rates in agricultural Iceland

The seasonal pattern of birth rates in nineteenth-century agricultural Iceland, peaking in late summer and early autumn, gradually disappeared when the population migrated to fishing villages in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. We descr...

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Main Authors: Davíd F. Björnsson, Gylfi Zoega
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
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Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03585522.2017.1340333
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:taf:sehrxx:v:65:y:2017:i:3:p:294-306 2023-05-15T16:44:50+02:00 Seasonality of birth rates in agricultural Iceland Davíd F. Björnsson Gylfi Zoega http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03585522.2017.1340333 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03585522.2017.1340333 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:31:21Z The seasonal pattern of birth rates in nineteenth-century agricultural Iceland, peaking in late summer and early autumn, gradually disappeared when the population migrated to fishing villages in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. We describe how this pattern is consistent with changes that have occurred in other countries and discuss some possible causes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
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description The seasonal pattern of birth rates in nineteenth-century agricultural Iceland, peaking in late summer and early autumn, gradually disappeared when the population migrated to fishing villages in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. We describe how this pattern is consistent with changes that have occurred in other countries and discuss some possible causes.
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