title: Interrelationships between mortality and fertility in Germany: rural and urban Prussia and modern Germany.
abstract: "The paper investigates the interrelationship between fertility and infant mortality and its economic determinants by time-series methods for historical and modern Germany.  It is studied whether the causal effects of infant mortality on fertility have to be considered as hoarding or replacement, and whether the costs of nutrition have an influence on family decision making about demographic variables.  Results show that there are indications for replacement motives, and that economic factors matter."  (SUMMARY IN FRE AND ITA)
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Entorf
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D005298:Fertility; D005858:Germany; D005859:Germany, East; D005860:Germany, West; D006262:Health; D007226:Infant Mortality; D009026:Mortality; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Eastern Europe; Economic Factors; Europe; Fertility; German Democratic Republic; Germany; Germany, Federal Republic Of; Health; Historical Survey; Infant Mortality; Mortality; Nutrition; Population; Population Dynamics; Socioeconomic Factors; Western Europe