In the first part of this paper we portray the relationship between mothers earnings, fertility and children's work in the Spanish (Catalan) context of the second half of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century. Specific human capital investment in adult working women had as an...

In the first part of this paper we portray the relationship between mothers' earnings, fertility and children's work in the Spanish (catalan) context of the second half of the 19th century. Specific human capital investment in adult working women had as an outcome the sharp increase of their...