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| Brown, John C.; Guinnane, Timothy W.. |
| The decline of human fertility that occurred in Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, and elsewhere in the twentieth century, remains a topic of debate largely because there is no accepted explanation for the event. Disagreement persists in part because researchers have rarely used the detailed quantitative information necessary to form adequate tests of alternative theories. This paper uses district-level data from Bavaria to study the correlates of the decline of fertility in that German kingdom in the nineteenth century. Bavarias fertility transition was later and less dramatic than in other parts of Germany. The European Fertility Project, the most influential study of the European fertility transition, used very large units of analysis... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertility transition; Migration; Germany; Labor and Human Capital; N3; J1. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28508 |
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| Brown, John C.; Guinnane, Timothy W.. |
| The Princeton Project on the Decline of Fertility in Europe (or European Fertility Project, hereafter EFP) was carried out at Princeton University's Office of Population Research in the 1960s and 1970s. This project aimed to characterize the decline of fertility that took place in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project's summary statements argued that social and economic forces played little role in bringing about the fertility transition. The statement stresses instead a process of innovation and diffusion. A central feature of the EFP argument is a series of statistical exercises that purport to show that changes in economic and social conditions exerted little influence on fertility. Two recent papers on Germany for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertility transition; Labor and Human Capital; J13; N33; O15. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28392 |
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| Schultz, T. Paul. |
| Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women, which have encouraged women to obtain more education and facilitated the rise in womens wages relative to mens. The private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling for additional births Declines in fertility have proceeded unevenly, first across the high income countries, and more recently across the low income countries. The cross sectional differentials in fertility are also frequently analyzed in household surveys, suggesting parallels with the cross-country comparisons. At an aggregate level, states have simultaneously legislated socialized support for the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertility transition; Womens schooling; Womens wages; Child mortality; Labor and Human Capital; D19; J10; J13; N30. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28471 |
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