Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission … family-specific 'cultural transmission' can affect fertility rates. In this context, we define 'culture' as referring to …-family size is positively associated with her own completed fertility in the destination family and that her country of birth also …

English fertility history is generally regarded as having been composed of two re-gimes: an era of unregulated marital … fertility, from at least 1540 to 1890, then the modern era, with regulated marital fertility, lower for higher social classes …. We show there were in fact three fertility regimes in England: a Malthusian regime which lasted from at least 1500 until …