Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-20th century

Sánchez Barricarte, Jesús Javier

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Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-20th century

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Análisis Social	es
dc.contributor.author	Sánchez Barricarte, Jesús Javier
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-16T11:31:42Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-16T11:31:42Z
dc.date.issued	2018-03-27
dc.description.abstract	BACKGROUND The early research on the baby boom tried to account for it as a logical recovery following the end of the Second World War (WWII). But it cannot be understood merely as a post-war phenomenon because its origins go back to the 1930s and early 1940s. OBJECTIVE I shall describe the methodology used to measure the total and marital baby boom and provide a detailed description of it. I shall attempt to explain the possible reasons that led to the sharp increase in the marital fertility rates and its subsequent decline. METHODS I will use various fertility indices that track the historical development of fertility (total and marital; period and cohort). RESULTS I show that there are major differences in the measurement of the baby boom depending on the index used. I found that the baby boom is highly heterogeneous in the 25 countries that form part of my study. It represented the logical response that families made to one period of prolonged political, economic, and military crisis (the crash of 1929 and WWII). CONCLUSIONS Researchers who use only the total fertility indices are really analysing only the nuptiality boom, which took place during those years, rather than changes in reproductive behaviour.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO2017-83290-P) and the Autonomous Community of Madrid (S2015/HUM-3321). I would like to express my gratitude for the helpful feedback provided by Alberto Elices-Vallejo and David Reher on a previous version of this paper. Professor Leandro Prados de la Escosura advised me on the search for information.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Sánchez-Barricarte, J. J. (2018). Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-twentieth century. Demographic Research 38, pp. 1189-1240	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.40
dc.identifier.issn	1435-9871
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	1189	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	1240	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Demographic Research	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	38	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39275
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000021400
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research	en
dc.relation.projectID	Comunidad de Madrid. S2015/HUM-3321	es
dc.relation.projectID	Gobierno de España. CSO2017-83290-P	es
dc.rights	© 2018 Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte	es
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.other	Demographic-transition	en
dc.subject.other	Marital fertility	en
dc.subject.other	Economic-growth	en
dc.subject.other	Long swings	en
dc.subject.other	Perspective	en
dc.subject.other	Mortality	en
dc.subject.other	Decline	en
dc.subject.other	Europe	en
dc.subject.other	Trends	en
dc.subject.other	Birth	en
dc.title	Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-20th century	en
dc.type	research article	en
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