TY  - JOUR
AU  - Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele
AU  - Rodgers, Joseph Lee
AU  - Rau, Roland
TI  - Seasonality of Birth in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Austria: Steps toward a Unified Theory of Human Reproductive Seasonality
JO  - MPIDR Working Paper WP 1999-013
VL  - 013
CY  - Rostock
PB  - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
M1  - DZNE-2022-01315
SP  - 1-38
PY  - 1999
AB  - We present an analysis of birth seasonality in nine geographical regions within Austria for two  time  periods,  1881-1912  and  1947-1959.  In  the  early  period,  geography,  climate,  and agricultural patterns were related to birth seasonality.  By the later time period, these factors were no  longer  related  to  birth  seasonality. We  propose  a  “resilience  hypothesis,”  which  suggests  two levels  of  causal  influences  on  birth  seasonality.    First,  underlying  the  three  significant  features  of birth seasonality patterns around the world are only a small number of major causes. But, second, there  are  a  multiplicity  of  minor  causes  that  result  in  small  perturbations  in  the  patterns.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/164871
ER  -