The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility life histories to wealth at death data for four rural villages in transition-era France, 1750-1850. The results show that it was the richest groups who reduced their family size first and that they used spacing strategies to achieve this. In cross section, measures of the environment for social mobility are strongly associated with the fertility decline. The evidence presented here demonstrates that socioeconomic status mattered during the early Fre...
We investigate the historical dynamics of the decline in fertility in Europe and its relation to mea...
Unified growth theory suggests the fertility decline was crucial for achieving long-term growth, yet...
This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in France, before the Frenc...
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...
The Demographic Transition enabled the productivity advances of the Industrial Revolution to be chan...
This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French departmen...
The early decline of fertility in France has puzzled scholars for a long time. Chronological analysi...
The fertility transition in nineteenth century Europe is one of economic history’s greatest puzzles....
Why did France experience the demographic transition first? This question remains one of the greates...
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper ...
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demograp...
Houdaii lf Jacques. Bi гм Alain and Tugault Yves. — Declining fertility rates in the Garonne Valley ...
Im Gesamtablauf des Bevölkerungsübergangs tritt Frankreich als ein Spezialfall mit einer beträchtlic...
Dossier d’études n° 59, Cnaf (Caisse nationale des allocations familiales)Europe as a whole recorded...
We investigate the historical dynamics of the decline in fertility in Europe and its relation to mea...
Unified growth theory suggests the fertility decline was crucial for achieving long-term growth, yet...
This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in France, before the Frenc...
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...
The Demographic Transition enabled the productivity advances of the Industrial Revolution to be chan...
This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French departmen...
The early decline of fertility in France has puzzled scholars for a long time. Chronological analysi...
The fertility transition in nineteenth century Europe is one of economic history’s greatest puzzles....
Why did France experience the demographic transition first? This question remains one of the greates...
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper ...
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demograp...
Houdaii lf Jacques. Bi гм Alain and Tugault Yves. — Declining fertility rates in the Garonne Valley ...
Im Gesamtablauf des Bevölkerungsübergangs tritt Frankreich als ein Spezialfall mit einer beträchtlic...
Dossier d’études n° 59, Cnaf (Caisse nationale des allocations familiales)Europe as a whole recorded...
We investigate the historical dynamics of the decline in fertility in Europe and its relation to mea...
Unified growth theory suggests the fertility decline was crucial for achieving long-term growth, yet...
This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in France, before the Frenc...