Age of entry into marriage and the date of the initiation of voluntary birth control
Coale, A.J.
Demography 29(3): 333-341
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0070-3370 PMID: 1426432 DOI: 10.2307/2061821Document Number: 320982
It is widely known that modern economic development has been accompanied by the initiation and spread of effective limitation of fertility, and that generally the populations which experienced development at a late date also had a belated reduction in childbearing. Here a surprising relation is found between (and within) broad regions: the areas in which traditional age of entry into marriage was late were the areas in which marital fertility was reduced first.