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dc.contributor.author | Cinnirella, Francesco | en |
dc.contributor.author | Klemp, Marc P. B. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Weisdorf, Jacob L. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-26 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-11T15:55:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-11T15:55:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64851 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We 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.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCESifo Working Paper |x3936 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J11 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J13 | en |
dc.subject.jel | N33 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | spacing | en |
dc.subject.keyword | birth intervals | en |
dc.subject.keyword | fertility | en |
dc.subject.keyword | limitation | en |
dc.subject.keyword | natural fertility | en |
dc.subject.keyword | preventive check | en |
dc.subject.stw | Familienplanung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Fruchtbarkeit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Lebensstandard | en |
dc.subject.stw | Sozialgeschichte | en |
dc.subject.stw | Großbritannien | en |
dc.title | Malthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 726462799 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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