The research provides the first empirical examination of the hypothesized effect of industrialization on the fertility … establishes that industrialization was a major catalyst in the fertility decline in the course of the demographic transition …. Moreover, the analysis further suggests that the contribution of industrialization to the decline in fertility plausibly …

examines the relationship connecting fertility and child quality for individual families in England and Wales at the start of … probability of leaving school. To account for the endogenous nature of fertility decisions, I use the sex composition of the first …