Publication Date:
1978-07-14
Description:
On 17 May 1954 the Supreme Court, in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declared de jure segregation of the public schools to be unconstitutional. It is argued here that a consequence of that decision was a decline in childbearing among white Southerners. In the nation as a whole, period fertility rates increased between 1954 and 1955, but in 9 of the 11 former Confederate states they decreased. Further analysis shows that these Southern fertility decreases began about 12 months after the Supreme Court decision. This variation in behavior in reaction to a historical event has important implications for the explanation and prediction of fertility.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rindfuss, R R -- Reed, J S -- John, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Jul 14;201(4351):178-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/351806" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Birth Rate
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*European Continental Ancestry Group
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History, 20th Century
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Human Rights
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Humans
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Legislation as Topic
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Psychology, Social
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*Schools
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*Social Change
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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