Max-Planck-Institut für demografi sche Forschung Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Konrad-Zuse-Strasse 1 · D-18057 Rostock · GERMANY Tel +49 (0) 3 81 20 81 - 0; Fax +49 (0) 3 81 20 81 - 202; http://www.demogr.mpg.de MPIDR WORKING PAPER WP 2012-020 JUNE 2012 Fertility Decline in the southeastern Austrian Crown lands. Was there a Hajnal line or a transitional zone? Peter Teibenbacher (
[email protected]) This working paper has been approved for release by: Mikołaj Szołtysek (
[email protected]), Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Historical Demography. © Copyright is held by the authors. Working papers of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research receive only limited review. Views or opinions expressed in working papers are attributable to the authors and do not necessarily refl ect those of the Institute. Fertility Decline in the southeastern Austrian Crown lands. Was there a Hajnal line or a transitional zone? Peter Teibenbacher Graz-Austrian-Fertility Project (GAFP), Austrian Science Fund P 21157 – G15, at the Department for Economic, Social and Business History, Karl- Franzens-University Graz, Universitätsstraße 157E/2, 8052 Graz, Austria. E-mail
[email protected] , Tel 0043 316 380 3523 MPIDR working paper WP 2012-XXXX Abstract There is a substantial body of literature on the subject of fertility decline in Europe during the first demographic transition. Historical demographic research on this topic started in Western Europe, but, as a result of the discussion of the Hajnal line thesis, the decline in fertility has been more thoroughly explored for Eastern Europe (especially Poland and Hungary) than for areas in between, like Austria.