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Low Fertilities in the Past and Present

Studies in Compositional Demography

Yuliya Hilevych, Philip Kreager (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

440 Seiten

2026
The British Academy (Verlag)
978-1-80596-666-1 (ISBN)

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Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levels – whether before, during, or after the so-called ‘fertility transition’. Population studies have also come to give more attention to the role of structural inequalities, including around family, class, gender, and health, and of people’s diverse and changing reproductive strategies that underpin varying low fertilities at sub-national levels.

This collection develops compositional demography approaches to address the advancements in sub-national variations. It brings together studies in anthropology, demography, history, and sociology, that have together developed an analytical lens for examining the low fertility phenomenon not as a mere average but as a composite of different reproductive behaviours and regimes. The volume is among the first to collect historical patterns of low fertilities and their underlying structural conditions in a long-term comparative perspective. It is also the first to detail comprehensively the compositional demography approach, which can be also applied to the study of various demographic phenomena around fertility, mortality, ageing, migration, and other population issues.

Yuliya Hilevych is an Assistant Professor of economic and social history at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Philip Kreager is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences (Demography), Somerville College, University of Oxford.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors

Introduction PHILIP KREAGER AND YULIYA HILEVYCH

Part I The Descent from Macro: Comparing Regional Population Distributions

A Spatial Approach to European Fertility Trends since 2008 NICHOLAS CAMPISI

Macro-Economic Conditions and Regional Variation in the Russian Total Fertility Rollercoaster, 1992-2019 MICHAEL ZASLAVSKY, TED GERBER, AND SUNNEE BILLINGSLEY

Forerunners, Space, and the Role of Religion during the Fertility Transition in England and Wales, 1851-1911 STEPHANIE THIEHOFF

Continuity and Change in Spatial Patterns of Fertility: The Case of London HANNALIIS JAADLA, ALICE REID, EILIDH GARRETT AND KEVIN SCHÜRER

Part II The Rich Potential of Meso: Synergies from Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Population Thinking

Low Fertilities before the Fertility Transition: Childlessness and Small Families in a 19th-century Dutch Province HILDE BRAS

When Marriage Becomes Unattainable: A Cohort Analysis of Fertility in Rural South Africa HANNAH GARDNER

Part III Understanding Communication Communities 7. A Different View on ‘Low’ Fertility: Perceptions of Ideal Family Size and Women’s Reproductive Pathways across Generations in Central Oman MAREN JORDAN

Postponement of Subsequent Childbirth: Fertility Decline under Conditions of Uncertainty in Botswana and Lesotho ASTRID BOCHOW AND LENA KROEKER

Crisis-Led Fertility Declines? Theorising the Influence of Compounding Crises and Structural Violence on Low Fertility in South Africa KAMMILA NAIDOO

Gendered Fertility: Reproductive Desires and Practices in Two Neighbourhoods in Contemporary Havana HEIDI HӒRKÖNEN

Intergenerational Support for Childcare: An Essential for Making the Second-child Decision in the Two-Child Policy Era SHIBEI NI

“In this generation, they mostly had one child”: Reproductive Norms and Reproductive Uncertainties of One-Child Families a the Onset of Low Fertility in Soviet Ukraine YULIYA HILEVYCH

Conclusions and Outstanding Issues PHILIP KREAGER AND YULIYA HILEVYCH

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Proceedings of the British Academy ; 284
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80596-666-9 / 1805966669
ISBN-13	978-1-80596-666-1 / 9781805966661
Zustand	Neuware