Bailey, Martha J.; Collins, William J. - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 189-217
We examine the hypothesis that advances in household technology caused the US baby boom, and we find no support for this claim. Advances in household technology occurred before the baby boom, while fertility declined. From 1940 to 1960, levels/changes in county-level appliance ownership and...
