Urban versus Rural: Fertility Decline in the Cities and Rural Districts of Prussia, 1875 to 1910

Patrick R. Galloway (), Ronald Lee () and Eugene a. Hammel
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Patrick R. Galloway: University of California
Eugene a. Hammel: University of California

European Journal of Population, 1998, vol. 14, issue 3, No 1, 209-264

Abstract: Abstract Marital fertility in 54 Prussian cities and 407 Prussian Kreise (administrative areas) is analyzed using unusually rich and detailed socioeconomic and demographic data from eight quinquennial census between 1875 and 1910. Pooled cross-section time series methods are used to examine influences on marital fertility level and on marital fertility decline, focusing particularly on fertility differences according to level of urbanization. Increases in female labour force participation rate and income, the growth of financial services and communications, improvement in education, and reduction in infant mortality account for most of the marital fertility decline in 19th century Prussia. In 1875, rural and urban fertility were similar but by 1910, urban fertility was far lower than rural in part because the values of some of these variables changed more rapidly in the cities, and in part because some of these variables had stronger effects in urban settings.

Keywords: cities; Europe; fertility transition; Germany; historical demography; marital fertility; Prussia; urban; urban and rural areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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