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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| Main Author: |
Ager, Philipp
Herz, Benedikt Brueckner, Markus |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
01.10.2020 |
| Data of publication: | 2020-10 |
| ISSN: |
0034-6535 1530-9142 |
| EISSN: |
1530-9142 |
| Discipline: | Economics Statistics |
| Bibliography: |
Ager , P , Herz , B & Brueckner , M 2020 , ' Structural change and the fertility transition ' , Review of Economics and Statistics , vol. 102 , no. 4 , pp. 806-822 . https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00851 |
| Online Access: |
Fulltext |
| Database: | SDU's Research Portal Database information Databases - DBIS |