The historical fertility transition is the process by which much of Europe and North America went from high to low … fertility in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This transformation is central to recent accounts of long …-run economic growth. Prior to the transition, women bore as many as eight children each, and the elasticity of fertility with …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

; mortality ; fertility ; nuptiality ; guilds …