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The role of religion in the Dutch fertility transition: starting, spacing, and stopping in the heart of the Netherlands, 1845–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2005

JAN VAN BAVEL  and
JAN KOK
JAN VAN BAVEL
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Catholic University of Leuven.
JAN KOK
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
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Abstract

This contribution investigates how religion retarded the Dutch fertility transition by looking at how denominations were associated with the timing of first births (starting), the length of birth intervals (spacing), and the timing of last births (stopping). First, we apply a simple descriptive model of starting, spacing, and stopping to life-course data from the province of Utrecht. Then, we apply multivariate regression to assess the independent effects of religious denominations, net of socio-economic status, on stopping behaviour. The results indicate that liberal Protestants were more prone to adopt stopping behaviour than orthodox Protestants and Catholics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , August 2005 , pp. 247 - 263
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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