Structural Change and the Fertility Transition

This paper provides new insights into the relationship between structural change and the fertility transition. We exploit the spread of an agricultural pest in the American South in the 1890s as plausibly exogenous variation in agricultural production to establish a causal link between earnings oppo...

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Volume:	102
Main Author:	Ager, Philipp Herz, Benedikt Brueckner, Markus
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	CAMBRIDGE MIT Press 01.10.2020 MIT PRESS
published in:	The review of economics and statistics Vol. 102; no. 4; pp. 806 - 822
Data of publication:	20201001
ISSN:	1530-9142 0034-6535 1530-9142
EISSN:	1530-9142
Discipline:	Economics Statistics
Subjects:	Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods POPULATION IMPACT TRADE-OFF QUANTITY BOLL-WEEVIL EDUCATION MALTHUSIAN STAGNATION LABOR INDUSTRIALIZATION CHILDREN
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2020 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS