This essay deals with the reasons explaining children's work in 19th century textile factories and their removal during the first part of the 20th century. The inadequacy of the structure of incomes and expenditures of the household and the very low economic incentives to educate children can...

In this chapter we portray the effects of female education and professional achievement on fertility decline in Spain over the period 1920-1980 (birth cohorts of 1900-1950). A longitudinal econometric approach is used to test the hypothesis that the effects of women's education in the revaluing...

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...