Simon Szreter's book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to … explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter … causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether …

The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …