The fertility decline started early in Zurich, in the mid-XVIIth century. The same trend is observed for other Protestant areas, suggesting the importance of religious doctrine. The present study, based on detailed information concerning the fertile life and social status of each family and an index for distinguishing between planners and non-planners, attempts to take into account on the one hand, this general factor, and on the other hand, the specific circumstanees which encouraged birth control. A freeze of the social structure, with the consequences on the cost of individual promotion for children, is at the heart of the process. The families threatened with downward social mobility and those seeking to improve their position in societ...
This study analyzes the impact of socioeconomic and cultural variables on marital fertility for Swit...
My thesis provides a contribution to economists' continuous attempts at understanding the determinan...
Catholicism and Protestantism have different ways of promoting the family unit that could influence ...
The fertility decline started early in Zurich, in the mid-XVIIth century. The same trend is observed...
A study of fertility among the working classes of Chartres in the XVIIIth century , based on a recon...
This short article documents the restriction of births in a rural protestant society which is virtua...
The present paper is based on two local studies concerning Geneva. An attempt is made to measure the...
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
This article deals with the possible existence of deliberate fertility control before the fertility ...
This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French departmen...
Collomb Philippe. Some Structural Factors in the Decline of French Fertility. Previous studies have ...
An exceptionally high geographical and occupational stability among the working-class households in ...
The decline of human fertility that occurred in Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, ...
Lesthaeghe Ron and Wilson Chris. — Methods of production secularisation and the pattern of fertility...
Birth control appeared in large and small cities of France during the eighteenth century. The purpos...
This study analyzes the impact of socioeconomic and cultural variables on marital fertility for Swit...
My thesis provides a contribution to economists' continuous attempts at understanding the determinan...
Catholicism and Protestantism have different ways of promoting the family unit that could influence ...
The fertility decline started early in Zurich, in the mid-XVIIth century. The same trend is observed...
A study of fertility among the working classes of Chartres in the XVIIIth century , based on a recon...
This short article documents the restriction of births in a rural protestant society which is virtua...
The present paper is based on two local studies concerning Geneva. An attempt is made to measure the...
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history....
This article deals with the possible existence of deliberate fertility control before the fertility ...
This study focuses on the decline of marital fertility between 1851 and 1891 in the French departmen...
Collomb Philippe. Some Structural Factors in the Decline of French Fertility. Previous studies have ...
An exceptionally high geographical and occupational stability among the working-class households in ...
The decline of human fertility that occurred in Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, ...
Lesthaeghe Ron and Wilson Chris. — Methods of production secularisation and the pattern of fertility...
Birth control appeared in large and small cities of France during the eighteenth century. The purpos...
This study analyzes the impact of socioeconomic and cultural variables on marital fertility for Swit...
My thesis provides a contribution to economists' continuous attempts at understanding the determinan...
Catholicism and Protestantism have different ways of promoting the family unit that could influence ...