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dc.contributor.authorCinnirella, Francescoen
dc.contributor.authorKlemp, Marc P. B.en
dc.contributor.authorWeisdorf, Jacob L.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-26-
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-11T15:55:46Z-
dc.date.available2012-10-11T15:55:46Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/64851-
dc.description.abstractWe question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England's fertility transition. While the effect could be driven by biology in the case of the poor, a significant effect among the rich suggests that spacing worked as a control mechanism in pre-modern England. Our findings support the Malthusian preventive check hypothesis and rationalize England's historical leadership as a low population-pressure, high-wage economy.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x3936en
dc.subject.jelJ11en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.jelN33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordspacingen
dc.subject.keywordbirth intervalsen
dc.subject.keywordfertilityen
dc.subject.keywordlimitationen
dc.subject.keywordnatural fertilityen
dc.subject.keywordpreventive checken
dc.subject.stwFamilienplanungen
dc.subject.stwFruchtbarkeiten
dc.subject.stwLebensstandarden
dc.subject.stwSozialgeschichteen
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.titleMalthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn726462799en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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