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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Cinnirella, Francesco | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Klemp, Marc P. B. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Weisdorf, Jacob L. | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-09-26 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-10-11T15:55:46Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-10-11T15:55:46Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2012 | | en_US |
| 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_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | CESifo München | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | CESifo Working Paper: Economics of Education 3936 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J11 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J13 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | N33 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | spacing | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | birth intervals | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | fertility | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | limitation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | natural fertility | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | preventive check | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Familienplanung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Fruchtbarkeit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebensstandard | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Sozialgeschichte | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Großbritannien | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Malthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 726462799 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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