Add to ORKGWe investigate the historical dynamics of the decline in fertility in Europe and its relation to measures of cultural and ancestral distance. We test the hypothesis that the decline of fertility was associated with the di¤usion of social and behavioral changes from France, in contrast with the spread of the Industrial Revolution, where England played a leading role. We argue that the di¤usion of the fertility decline and the spread of industrialization followed di¤erent patterns because societies at di¤erent relative distances from the respective innovators (the French and the English) faced di¤erent barriers to imitation and adoption, and such barriers were lower for societies that were historically and culturally closer to the innovators....
Despite some disagreements about specific timing, it is now widely accepted that France was the firs...
Human fertility rates showed a marked decline in Western Europe from the mid-nineteenth century unti...
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper ...
The Demographic Transition enabled the productivity advances of the Industrial Revolution to be chan...
To better understand the forces underlying fertility decisions, we look at the forerunners of fertil...
Why did France experience the demographic transition first? This question remains one of the greates...
Unified growth theory suggests the fertility decline was crucial for achieving long-term growth, yet...
To better understand the forces underlying fertility decisions, we look at the forerunners of fertil...
Recent developments in endogenous growth theory suggest fertility decline in the context of the demo...
Between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, couples all around Europe began to ...
Between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, couples all around Europe began to ...
This paper investigates the associations between fertility decline in Western Europe since the ninet...
This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French departmen...
One of the major arguments made in the literature in support of the view that the European fertility...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
Despite some disagreements about specific timing, it is now widely accepted that France was the firs...
Human fertility rates showed a marked decline in Western Europe from the mid-nineteenth century unti...
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper ...
The Demographic Transition enabled the productivity advances of the Industrial Revolution to be chan...
To better understand the forces underlying fertility decisions, we look at the forerunners of fertil...
Why did France experience the demographic transition first? This question remains one of the greates...
Unified growth theory suggests the fertility decline was crucial for achieving long-term growth, yet...
To better understand the forces underlying fertility decisions, we look at the forerunners of fertil...
Recent developments in endogenous growth theory suggest fertility decline in the context of the demo...
Between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, couples all around Europe began to ...
Between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, couples all around Europe began to ...
This paper investigates the associations between fertility decline in Western Europe since the ninet...
This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French departmen...
One of the major arguments made in the literature in support of the view that the European fertility...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
Despite some disagreements about specific timing, it is now widely accepted that France was the firs...
Human fertility rates showed a marked decline in Western Europe from the mid-nineteenth century unti...
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper ...