| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25957 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25957 |
| Fertility and Modernity | |
| Enrico Spolaore; Romain Wacziarg | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-17 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education, lower infant mortality, higher urbanization, and higher population density had lower levels of fertility during the 19th and early 20th century. However, the fertility decline took place earlier and was initially larger in communities that were culturally closer to the French, while the fertility transition spread only later to societies that were more distant from the cultural frontier. This is consistent with a process of social influence, whereby societies that were linguistically and culturally closer to the French faced lower barriers to the adoption of new social norms and attitudes towards fertility control. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Macroeconomic History ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25957 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583631 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Enrico Spolaore,Romain Wacziarg. Fertility and Modernity. 2019. |
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