Patriarchy and fertility in Albania - Demographic Research.pdf

DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VOLUME 29, ARTICLE 6, PAGES 133-166 PUBLISHED 26 JULY 2013 /Volumes/Vol29/6/ DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.6 Research Article Patriarchy and fertility in Albania Mathias Lerch © 2013 Mathias Lerch. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany, which permits use, reproduction distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See http:// /licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/ Table of Contents 1 Introduction 134 2 The Albanian context 136 3 Hypotheses 138 4 Data and methods 140 5 Results 144 5.1 Marriage 144 5.2 Family enlargement 147 5.3 Socialisation in patriarchal values and intentions to enlarge the 150 family 6 Discussion and conclusion 152 7 Acknowledgments 155 References 156 Appendix: Linkages of Census data and descriptive statistics of 162 covariates Demographic Research : Volume 29, Article 6 Research Article Patriarchy and fertility in Albania Mathias Lerch1 Abstract BACKGROUND Theories of fertil