Guinnane, Timothy; Moehling, Carolyn; Grada, Cormac O - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002
marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition …In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …