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and a fixed effect two-stage least squares model, this study exploits variations in fertility and in human capital …
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endowed with full control over their fertility but, differently from other studies, the degree of agents' altruism which … mainly affects fertility choices are allowed to change with the standard of living. We relate agents' altruism to the …
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English fertility history is generally regarded as having been composed of two regimes: an era of unregulated marital … fertility, from at least 1540 to 1890, then the modern era, with regulated marital fertility, lower for higher social classes …. We show there were in fact three fertility regimes in England: a Malthusian regime which lasted from at least 1500 until …
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This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
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"This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
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This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461621