Clark, Gregory and Cummins, Neil 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967
(2015)
Malthus to modernity: wealth, status, and fertility in England, 1500–1879.
Journal of Population Economics, 28 (1).
ISSN 0933-1433
Abstract
A key challenge to theories of long-run economic growth has been linking the onset of modern growth with the move to modern fertility limitation. A notable puzzle for these theories is that modern growth in England began around 1780, 100 years before there was seemingly any movement to limit fertility. Here we show that the aggregate data on fertility in England before 1880 conceals significant declines in the fertility of the middle and upper classes earlier. These declines coincide with the Industrial Revolution and are of the character predicted by some recent theories of long-run growth.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00148-... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > C Auxiliary sciences of history (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2014 14:36 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2024 06:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57126 |
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