This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French department of the Loire. Using data from a sample of 33 rural villages, it finds that a gradual mortality decline created pressures for fertility decline by increasing the economic burden of children on individual families. The closeness of a village to an urban center and to avenues of communication was also associated with lower fertility, suggesting that the increased integration of rural villages in urban Systems also increased these pressures. Of most interest, however, is the fact that inherited attitudes related to différent cultural pasts created variations in the speed and extent to which marital fertility declined. This suggests the need for...
Rural populations are said to have lowered their fertility following the urban elite model. This art...
Fertility behaviour in rural areas has been perceived as static, backward and uniform. This article ...
The early decline of fertility in France has puzzled scholars for a long time. Chronological analysi...
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
This short article documents the restriction of births in a rural protestant society which is virtua...
This short article documents the restriction of births in a rural protestant society which is virtua...
The Demographic Transition enabled the productivity advances of the Industrial Revolution to be chan...
Rural populations are said to have lowered their fertility following the urban elite model. This art...
Fertility behaviour in rural areas has been perceived as static, backward and uniform. This article ...
The early decline of fertility in France has puzzled scholars for a long time. Chronological analysi...
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
It has been long established that the demographic transition began in eighteenth-century France, yet...
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
This short article documents the restriction of births in a rural protestant society which is virtua...
This short article documents the restriction of births in a rural protestant society which is virtua...
The Demographic Transition enabled the productivity advances of the Industrial Revolution to be chan...
Rural populations are said to have lowered their fertility following the urban elite model. This art...
Fertility behaviour in rural areas has been perceived as static, backward and uniform. This article ...
The early decline of fertility in France has puzzled scholars for a long time. Chronological analysi...