Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59164 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Center Discussion Paper No. 993
Publisher: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
Simon Szreter's book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter's conclusion made the book immediately influential, and it remains so. This finding matters a great deal for debates about the causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether the main forces at work were ideational or social and economic. This note reports a simple re-analysis of Szreter's own data, which suggests that social class does explain cross-sectional differences in English marital fertility in 1911.
Subjects: 
Fertility transition
1911 Census of England and Wales
JEL: 
J13
N33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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