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 …

not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …

income shocks. Identification relies on fertility differences between farm and non-farm households within counties and over … time. The results suggest that in areas with a high variance in rainfall the fertility differential between farm households … other relevant forces such as income, education and children’s survival as well as the spatial correlation in fertility …

economic growth, (2) economic development accompanies more investment in human capital and lower fertility due to the quantity …-quality tradeoff, and (3) current low level of fertility corresponds to too low support ratios for keeping up with the frontier …