the theoretical predictions by using cross-state variation in the US in the timing of married women obtaining property and …

had no contact (e.g., children from previous marriages). We find that in complex families past and current contact between …

subsequent cohorts. To examine this link empirically, we exploit the large cross-state variation in the magnitude of the decline …

births) for child quality (education). Using family reconstitution data from historical England, we explore the causal link … between family size and human capital of offspring measured by their literacy status and professional skills. We use a proxy … of marital fecundity to instrument family size, finding that children of couples of low fecundity (and hence small …

part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also uncover a new fact: in both international and cross-state U.S. data, there …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …