Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969

Studies of childlessness in the twentieth century in developed countries have underscored the existence of diverging trends with higher levels among cohorts born at the beginning of the twentieth century, lower ones among the baby boom cohorts and finally higher ones for cohorts born after the Secon...

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Autores: Reher, David, Requena, Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/2581
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-018-9471-7
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/2581
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
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ODS 3 - Salud y bienestar
ODS 5 - Igualdad de género
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spelling Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969Reher, DavidRequena, MiguelChildlessnessFertilityMarital statusEducationSpainChildlessnessFertilityMarital statusEducationSpain52 Demografía::5201 FertilidadODS 3 - Salud y bienestarODS 5 - Igualdad de géneroStudies of childlessness in the twentieth century in developed countries have underscored the existence of diverging trends with higher levels among cohorts born at the beginning of the twentieth century, lower ones among the baby boom cohorts and finally higher ones for cohorts born after the Second World War. Spain also shows these basic trends, but the fit is not identical to that of other countries, with differences affecting the timing of trend changes and also the levels of childlessness observed in the final part of the period. This paper focuses on Spanish women born 1920 and 1969 and explores the factors characterizing traditional/old childlessness and how these differ from those holding more recently. Using microdata from Spanish Census of 2011, our approach makes use of logistic regression and regression-based decomposition techniques. Change over time, as measured by inter-cohort variations, reveals strikingly different patterns of behaviour characterized by a reversal of the traditional association of childlessness with marital status and educational attainment that takes place in a period of intense and pervasive social change.The research for this paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Projects references CSO2011-24625), Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (SO2014-53903-C3-1-R and CSO2014-53903-C3-3-R), and Comunidad de Madrid H2015/HUM3321.yesPublishedSpringerMinisterio de Ciencia e InnovaciónMinistry of Economy, Industry and CompetitivenessComunidad de Madridhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75202420242018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-018-9471-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/2581reponame:Repositorio IEinstname:IEInglésCSO2011-24625SO2014-53903-C3-1-RCSO2014-53903-C3-3-RH2015/HUM3321IE UniversityAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/25812026-06-15T12:40:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
title Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
spellingShingle Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
Reher, David
Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
52 Demografía::5201 Fertilidad
ODS 3 - Salud y bienestar
ODS 5 - Igualdad de género
title_short Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
title_full Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
title_fullStr Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
title_full_unstemmed Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
title_sort Childlessness in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Cohort Analysis for Women Born 1920–1969
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Reher, David
Requena, Miguel
author Reher, David
author_facet Reher, David
Requena, Miguel
author_role author
author2 Requena, Miguel
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
Comunidad de Madrid
https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
52 Demografía::5201 Fertilidad
ODS 3 - Salud y bienestar
ODS 5 - Igualdad de género
topic Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
Childlessness
Fertility
Marital status
Education
Spain
52 Demografía::5201 Fertilidad
ODS 3 - Salud y bienestar
ODS 5 - Igualdad de género
description Studies of childlessness in the twentieth century in developed countries have underscored the existence of diverging trends with higher levels among cohorts born at the beginning of the twentieth century, lower ones among the baby boom cohorts and finally higher ones for cohorts born after the Second World War. Spain also shows these basic trends, but the fit is not identical to that of other countries, with differences affecting the timing of trend changes and also the levels of childlessness observed in the final part of the period. This paper focuses on Spanish women born 1920 and 1969 and explores the factors characterizing traditional/old childlessness and how these differ from those holding more recently. Using microdata from Spanish Census of 2011, our approach makes use of logistic regression and regression-based decomposition techniques. Change over time, as measured by inter-cohort variations, reveals strikingly different patterns of behaviour characterized by a reversal of the traditional association of childlessness with marital status and educational attainment that takes place in a period of intense and pervasive social change.
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