Cinyabuguma, Matthias; Lord, Bill; Viauroux, Christelle - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2012
This paper addresses revolutionary changes in the education, fertility and market work of U.S. families formed in the … 1870s-1920s: Fertility fell from 5.3 to 2.6; the graduation rate of their children increased from 7 to 50 percent; and the … provision of schooling cannot, individually or in combination, reduce fertility or increase stocks of human capital to levels …