; mortality ; fertility ; nuptiality ; guilds …. Mortality was less sensitive to shocks than one would expect, while nuptiality was especially sensitive. -- Malthusian models …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

This paper estimates child mortality by race and nativity for the U.S. as a whole and the Death Registration Area based … on the public use micro- samples of the 1900 and 1910 censuses. We compare indirect estimates to mortality rates and … results are less definite for African-Americans but it seems that mortality was substantialy better than indicated by the …