Social mobility and fertility
Intra- and inter-generational social mobility have in the past played an important role in attempts to explain fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th century are renewed and confirmed. More specifically: (1) intra-g...
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| description | Intra- and inter-generational social mobility have in the past played an important role in attempts to explain fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th century are renewed and confirmed. More specifically: (1) intra-generational social mobility has been reinforced by the personal well-being aspirations and job careers of women; (2) status anxiety parents feel for their children pushes fertility down in large areas of the developed world (mainly in southern European and eastern Asian countries). Therefore, the provocative idea of Ariès that in the rich world, the child-king has now been replaced by the couple-queen does not perfectly hold. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-222b46b9355c4f4ab9f94ecc711a2e3f2022-12-22T03:23:26ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712007-12-011715Social mobility and fertilityGianpiero Dalla ZuannaIntra- and inter-generational social mobility have in the past played an important role in attempts to explain fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th century are renewed and confirmed. More specifically: (1) intra-generational social mobility has been reinforced by the personal well-being aspirations and job careers of women; (2) status anxiety parents feel for their children pushes fertility down in large areas of the developed world (mainly in southern European and eastern Asian countries). Therefore, the provocative idea of Ariès that in the rich world, the child-king has now been replaced by the couple-queen does not perfectly hold.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/15/demographic transitionfertilitysocial mobility |
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| title | Social mobility and fertility |
| title_full | Social mobility and fertility |
| title_fullStr | Social mobility and fertility |
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| title_short | Social mobility and fertility |
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| topic | demographic transition fertility social mobility |
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