Narrow search
Showing 1 - 3 of 3
Cover Image
The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023
administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275980
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England's fertility transition. While the effect … England's historical leadership as a low population-pressure, high-wage economy. -- spacing ; birth intervals ; fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621705