Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013
The role of demography in long-run economic growth has been subject to increasing attention. This paper questions the received wisdom that marital birth control was absent before the nineteenth century. Using an extensive individual-level dataset covering 270,000 births from 80,000 families we...