Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared

Declining marriage and fertility rates following the collapse of state socialism have been the subject of numerous studies in Central and Eastern Europe. More recent literature has focused on marriage and fertility dynamics in the period of post-crisis political stabilization and economic growth. Ho...

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Main Authors: Agadjanian, Victor, Dommaraju, Premchand, Nedoluzhko, Lesia
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-796292020-03-07T12:10:37Z Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared Agadjanian, Victor Dommaraju, Premchand Nedoluzhko, Lesia School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Declining marriage and fertility rates following the collapse of state socialism have been the subject of numerous studies in Central and Eastern Europe. More recent literature has focused on marriage and fertility dynamics in the period of post-crisis political stabilization and economic growth. However, relatively little research on marriage and fertility has dealt with the Central Asian part of the post-socialist world. We use survey and published data from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, two multiethnic countries with differing paths of post-crisis recovery, to examine overall and ethnic-specific trends in entry into marriage and fertility. We find that in both countries rates of entry into marriage continued to decline throughout post-crisis years. By contrast, fertility rose, and this rise was greater in the more prosperous Kazakhstan. However, we also detect considerable ethnic variations in fertility trends which we situate within the ethnopolitical and ethnodemographic contexts of both countries. Accepted version 2013-11-26T08:33:15Z 2019-12-06T13:29:42Z 2013-11-26T08:33:15Z 2019-12-06T13:29:42Z 2013 2013 Journal Article Agadjanian, V., Dommaraju, P., & Nedoluzhko, L. (2013). Economic Fortunes, Ethnic Divides, and Marriage and Fertility in Central Asia: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Compared. Journal of Population Research, 30(3), 197-211. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79629 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17862 10.1007/s12546-013-9112-2 175100 en Journal of population research © 2013 Springer Science+Business. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of Population Research, Springer Science+Business. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12546-013-9112-2]. application/pdf
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Agadjanian, Victor
Dommaraju, Premchand
Nedoluzhko, Lesia
Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
description Declining marriage and fertility rates following the collapse of state socialism have been the subject of numerous studies in Central and Eastern Europe. More recent literature has focused on marriage and fertility dynamics in the period of post-crisis political stabilization and economic growth. However, relatively little research on marriage and fertility has dealt with the Central Asian part of the post-socialist world. We use survey and published data from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, two multiethnic countries with differing paths of post-crisis recovery, to examine overall and ethnic-specific trends in entry into marriage and fertility. We find that in both countries rates of entry into marriage continued to decline throughout post-crisis years. By contrast, fertility rose, and this rise was greater in the more prosperous Kazakhstan. However, we also detect considerable ethnic variations in fertility trends which we situate within the ethnopolitical and ethnodemographic contexts of both countries.
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Agadjanian, Victor
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Nedoluzhko, Lesia
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author Agadjanian, Victor
Dommaraju, Premchand
Nedoluzhko, Lesia
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title Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
title_short Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
title_full Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
title_fullStr Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
title_full_unstemmed Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
title_sort economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in central asia : kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan compared
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