Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149254 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6167
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent children. The effects were larger among the lower socioeconomic ranks. Our findings on the existence of parity-dependent as well as parity-independent birth spacing in England are consistent with the growing evidence that marital birth control was present in pre-transitional populations.
Subjects: 
spacing
birth intervals
birth control
fertility limitation
preventive check
JEL: 
J11
J13
O12
N33
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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