Search Results - subject:"Preventive check"

Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2016

We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...

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Population density, fertility and demographic convergence in developing countries

De la Croix, David; Gobbi, P. - 2016

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Malthus in the bedroom : birth spacing as birth control in pre-transition England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2016

We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540-1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557836

Malthusian pressures: Empirical evidence from a frontier economy

Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2015

In this paper we study Malthusian pressures in a frontier economy. Using the empirical data on the real prices and demographic variables from 1688 to 1860 for Quebec and Montreal, we test for the existence of Malthusian pressures. Bearing in mind the particularities of frontier economies and the...

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Malthusian pressures: Empirical evidence from a frontier economy

Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät … - 2015

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Malthusian pressures : empirical evidence from a frontier economy

Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2015

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Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England

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...

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Malthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2012

control mechanism in pre-modern England. Our findings support the Malthusian preventive check hypothesis and rationalize …

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Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - CESifo - 2012

control mechanism in pre-modern England. Our findings support the Malthusian preventive check hypothesis and rationalize …

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The Preventive Check in Medieval and Pre-industrial England

Kelly, Morgan; Gráda, Cormac Ó - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2011

the presence of a preventive check, defined as the short-run response of marriage and births to variations in living … standards, is rather weak. New evidence in this paper strengthens the case for the preventive check in both medieval and early … modern England. We invoke manorial data to argue the case for a preventive check on marriages in the middle ages. Our …

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