This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …

We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain … human capital, accelerating technological progress. This reinforcing loop results in the transition to a new fertility …

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … that the fertility decline is a neglected source of the rapid improvement in health in the first half of the twentieth … century. -- Fertility decline ; heights of children ; health in Britain …

female labour market participation, which is in turn related to fertility reduction. Lastly we find that more rapid urban … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality …. -- fertility ; infant mortality ; education and sanitary reform ; women's participation ; education ; 19th century and early 20th …

migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … that the fertility decline is a neglected source of the rapid improvement in health in the first half of the twentieth …

The Princeton Project on the Decline of Fertility in Europe (or European Fertility Project, hereafter EFP) was carried … decline of fertility that took place in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project's summary … statements argued that social and economic forces played little role in bringing about the fertility transition. The statement …

Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional …-employment database links 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Controlling extensively for pre …

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed …

Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional …-employment database links 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Controlling extensively for pre …