The U.S. fertility transition in the nineteenth century is unusual. Not only did it start from a very high fertility …-century American fertility transition. We construct cross-sectional models of net fertility for currently-married white couples in … find evidence of marital fertility control consistent with hypotheses as early as 1830. The results indicate support for …

dates, and types of agricultural economy. The parity data indicate a strong decline in marital fertility during the first … part of the 19th Century; little evidence of fertility control within marriage is found for the oldest women in the sample …. Fertility decline was initially most evident in the urban, more economically developed areas, but eventual levels were equal in …

fertility and mortality. Most presently developed nations began their fertility transitions in the late nineteenth or early … fertility of the white population of the United States was declining from at least the year 1800. By the end of the antebellum … experiencing a fertility transition. This transition was well in advance of significant urbanization, industrialization, and …

fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and … death, while contributing to increases in the general fertility rate. Estimates of the relationship between economic …

This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the … three dimensions of demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups …

-infant mortality, and fertility. For 111 cities for which data on relief spending during the 1930s were available, we collected annual …s. Relief spending also raised general fertility rates. Our estimates suggest that the cost of saving an infant life …