| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11752 |
| DP11752 Childlessness, Celibacy and Net Fertility in Pre-Industrial England: The Middle-class Evolutionary Advantage | |
| David de la Croix; Eric Schneider; Jacob Weisdorf | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-01-07 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In explaining England’s early industrial development, previous research has highlighted that wealthy pre-industrial elites had more surviving offspring than their poorer counterparts. Thus, entrepreneurial traits spread and helped England grow rich. We contest this view, showing that lower-class reproduction rates were no different from the elites when taking singleness and childlessness into account. Elites married less and were more often childless. Many died without descendants. We find that the middle classes had the highest net reproduction and argue that this advantage was instrumental to England’s economic success because the middle class invested most strongly in human capital. |
| 主题 | Economic History |
| 关键词 | Fertility Marriage Childlessness European marriage pattern Industrial rev- olution Evolutionary advantage Social class |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11752-0 |
| 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/540566 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David de la Croix,Eric Schneider,Jacob Weisdorf. DP11752 Childlessness, Celibacy and Net Fertility in Pre-Industrial England: The Middle-class Evolutionary Advantage. 2017. |
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