The Population Structure of the Amish: The Demographic Architecture of One of America’s Fastest Growing Groups

Presented at the Population Association of America annual conference.

Anderson, Cory, and Stephanie Thiehoff. 2023.

Research Points
  • Employs a new Amish population database including over 50,000 households, the vast majority of the Amish

  • Age of marriage among the Amish is relatively low and the vast majority of individuals do marry

  • Spacing between marriage and first birth and between births is short

  • Twinning rate is comparatively high

  • Infant mortality is relatively low

  • Expected lifespan is comparable to other Western populations

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Persistently High Fertility in a Low Fertility Context: How Do America’s Amish Heterogeneously Respond to Fertility-Reducing Structural Incentives?

Presented at the Population Association of America annual conference. Atlanta, GA.
Anderson, Cory, George Hayward, Shuai Zhou, Guangqing Chi, and Mary Shenk. 2022.

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Collecting and Analyzing Micro Data about the Amish, a Rapidly Growing Ethno-Religious North American Population.

Population Association of America annual conference. Virtual.
Anderson, Cory, and Samson Wasao. 2021.

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The Persistently High Fertility of a North American Population: A 25-Year Restudy of Parity among the Ohio Amish

Population Studies
Wasao, Samson, Cory Anderson, and Christian Mpody. 2021.
75(3):477-86.

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Reviving the Demographic Study of the Amish.

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
Colyer, Cory, Cory Anderson, Joseph Donnermeyer, Rachel Stein, and Samson Wasao. 2017.
5(1):96-119.

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Birth Rates, Contraception Usage, and Demographic Data Relating to the Beachy Amish-Mennonite Churches

Working paper, updated in 2010.
Original version:
Harrisonburg, VA: James Madison University.
Anderson, Cory. 2005.

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