The Reproductive Renaissance North of the Rio Grande

Norman B. Ryder
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Norman B. Ryder: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1958, vol. 316, issue 1, 18-24

Abstract: The annual numbers of births in the United States and in Canada have increased by more than 70 per cent in the past twenty years. In both countries an important component of this increase has been a change in the timing pattern of births. In addition to the spurious inflation of annual fer tility which such a timing change induces, mean parity for American cohorts has increased by 27 per cent because of a decline in the proportion of women with submodal fertility. The most likely explanation of this is a rise in real per- capita income among those who regulate childbearing.

Date: 1958
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