Further Evidence of Within-Marriage Fertility Control in Pre-Transitional England

Francesco Cinnirella; Marc Patrick Brag Klemp; Jacob Weisdorf

doi:10.1007/s13524-019-00787-1

Further Evidence of Within-Marriage Fertility Control in Pre-Transitional England

Francesco Cinnirella^*, Marc Patrick Brag Klemp, Jacob Weisdorf

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Abstract

The identification of parity effects on the hazard of a next birth in cross-family data requires accounting for heterogeneity in fecundity across couples. In a previously published article, Cinnirella et al. Demography, 54, 413–436 (2017), we stratified duration models at the maternal level for this purpose and found that the hazard of a next birth decreases with rising parity in historical England. Clark and Cummins Demography, 56 (2019) took issue with this finding, claiming that the result is a statistical artifact caused by stratification at the maternal level. This reply documents that our previous finding is robust to addressing Clark and Cummins’ critique.

Original language	English
Journal	Demography
Volume	56
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	1557-1572
Number of pages	16
ISSN	0070-3370
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00787-1
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2019

Keywords

Birth control
Birth interval
Fertility limitation
Preventive check
Spacing

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