| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9116 |
| DP9116 Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England | |
| Jacob Weisdorf; Francesco Cinnirella; Marc Klemp | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-09-02 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on individual data, we find a causal negative effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England's fertility transition. While the effect could be driven by biology in the case of the poor, a significant effect among the rich suggests that spacing worked as a control mechanism in pre-modern England. Our findings support the Malthusian preventive check hypothesis and rationalize England's historical leadership as a low population-pressure, high-wage economy. |
| 主题 | Economic History |
| 关键词 | Birth intervals Fertility limitation Natural fertility Preventive check Spacing |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9116 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537949 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jacob Weisdorf,Francesco Cinnirella,Marc Klemp. DP9116 Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England. 2012. |
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