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Population growth and fertility patterns in an Old Order Amish settlement

L. P. Greksa Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Pages 192-201 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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Cory Anderson & Lindsey Potts. (2022) Physical health conditions of the Amish and intervening social mechanisms: an exhaustive narrative review. Ethnicity & Health 27:8, pages 1952-1978.
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Samson Wasao, Cory Anderson & Christian Mpody. (2021) The persistently high fertility of a North American population: A 25-year restudy of parity among the Ohio Amish. Population Studies 75:3, pages 477-486.
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Lyman Stone. (2023) Ultra-Orthodox fertility and marriage in the United States: Evidence from the American Community Survey. Demographic Research 49, pages 769-782.
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Roman Zakharenko. (2021) Dead men tell no tales: the role of cultural transmission in demographic change. Journal of Demographic Economics 87:4, pages 511-536.
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Liang Choon Wang. (2020) Religious prohibition and sacrifice: evidence from the Amish restriction on high school education. Journal of Demographic Economics 86:3, pages 403-434.
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James P. Choy. (2020) Religious rules as a means of strengthening family ties: Theory and evidence from the Amish. Journal of Comparative Economics 48:3, pages 729-748.
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Colin Patterson. (2020) A CULTURAL EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO MODERNITY: WHAT MIGHT IT MEAN FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH?. Zygon® 55:1, pages 52-72.
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Michael D. Weight & Henry Harpending. (2016) SOME USES OF MODELS OF QUANTITATIVE GENETIC SELECTION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE. Journal of Biosocial Science 49:1, pages 15-30.
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Roman Zakharenko. (2016) Endogenous growth and demographic transition in a model of cultural transmission. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 26:5, pages 953-970.
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Paul A. Gastañaduy, Jeremy Budd, Nicholas Fisher, Susan B. Redd, Jackie Fletcher, Julie Miller, Dwight J. McFaddenIIIIII, Jennifer Rota, Paul A. Rota, Carole Hickman, Brian Fowler, Lilith Tatham, Gregory S. Wallace, Sietske de Fijter, Amy Parker Fiebelkorn & Mary DiOrio. (2016) A Measles Outbreak in an Underimmunized Amish Community in Ohio. New England Journal of Medicine 375:14, pages 1343-1354.
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Cory Anderson. (2023) Religious Seekers’ Attraction to the Plain Mennonites and Amish. Review of Religious Research 58:1, pages 125-147.
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Cory Anderson & Loren Kenda. (2015) What Kinds of Places Attract and Sustain Amish Populations?. Rural Sociology 80:4, pages 483-511.
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Natalie Jolly. (2014) In this World but Not of It: Midwives, Amish, and the Politics of Power. Sociological Research Online 19:2, pages 1-10.
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Christopher P. Scheitle, Jennifer B. Kane & Jennifer Van Hook. (2011) Demographic Imperatives and Religious Markets: Considering the Individual and Interactive Roles of Fertility and Switching in Group Growth. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50:3, pages 470-482.
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Martha J BaileyWilliam J Collins. (2011) Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3:2, pages 189-217.
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Lesley Newson & Peter J. Richerson. (2009) Why Do People Become Modern? A Darwinian Explanation. Population and Development Review 35:1, pages 117-158.
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Melissa M. Adams, Greg R. Alexander, Russell S. Kirby & Mary Slay WingateMelisa M. Adams. 2009. Perinatal Epidemiology for Public Health Practice. Perinatal Epidemiology for Public Health Practice 5 48 .
J. Pascual, C.E. García-Moro & M. Hernández. (2005) Biological and behavioral determinants of fertility in Tierra del Fuego. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127:1, pages 105-113.
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Roman Zakharenko. (2014) Endogenous Growth and Demographic Transition in a Model of Cultural Transmission. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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