Fertility policy in Ceausescu's Romania

Journal of Family History

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 478-492

  Keil, Thomas J ^a   Andreescu, Viviana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTORY; IDEOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; ROMANIA;

BIRTH RATE; COMMUNISM; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION GROWTH; ROMANIA;

EID: 0033211925     PISSN: 03631990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/036319909902400405     Document Type: Article

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2. 2. Ibid.
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15. 15. Ibid.
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26. o/1-δ, gives the rate of return of the series to the initial level. The smaller the denominator, the more quickly the series returns to its initial level. We tested a variety of models to estimate the impact of the various time periods. In none of these models was the δ statistically significant, indicating that the series rapidly assumed its preintervention level. See McCleary and Hay, Applied Time Series, for a discussion of these models.
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28. 28. Ibid.
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32. 32. For a discussion of Romanian nationalism during the Ceausescu regime, see Katherine Verdery, National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania (Berkeley, CA, 1991); Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (Ithaca, NY, 1995); and Thomas J. Keil, "Exclusionary Attitudes Toward the Roma in Bucharest, Romania: Results of a Survey," East European Quarterly (forthcoming).
33. 32. For a discussion of Romanian nationalism during the Ceausescu regime, see Katherine Verdery, National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania (Berkeley, CA, 1991); Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (Ithaca, NY, 1995); and Thomas J. Keil, "Exclusionary Attitudes Toward the Roma in Bucharest, Romania: Results of a Survey," East European Quarterly (forthcoming).
34. 32. For a discussion of Romanian nationalism during the Ceausescu regime, see Katherine Verdery, National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania (Berkeley, CA, 1991); Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (Ithaca, NY, 1995); and Thomas J. Keil, "Exclusionary Attitudes Toward the Roma in Bucharest, Romania: Results of a Survey," East European Quarterly (forthcoming).
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