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Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England
Copyright policy )Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England
We use duration models on a well-known historical data set of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent children. The effects were larger among the lower socioeconomic ranks. Our findings on the existence of parity-dependent as well as parity-independent birth spacing in England are consistent with the growing evidence that marital birth control was present in pre-transitional populations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13524-017-0556-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
- University of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Departement of Economics United States
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Denmark
- University of Warwick United Kingdom
- Sapienza University of Rome Italy
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: media_common.quotation_subject Birth rate Birth control Birth intervals Socioeconomic status media_common Birth spacing Geography Bedroom Demography
Birth intervals, History, Birth control; Birth intervals; Fertility limitation; Preventive check; Spacing; Birth Intervals; Birth Rate; Contraception; England; Family Characteristics; History, 16th Century; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; Humans; Income; Maternal Age; Socioeconomic Factors; Weather, Preventive check, 18th Century, Settore SECS-P/02 - Politica Economica, Faculty of Social Sciences, Article, Settore SECS-P/12 - Storia Economica, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfSocialSciences, Humans, Birth control, Birth Rate, 16th Century, Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica, Weather, Demography, Family Characteristics, 19th Century, Spacing, Spacing; Birth intervals; Birth control; Fertility limitation; Preventive check, Fertility limitation, Contraception, England, Socioeconomic Factors, Income, 17th Century, Maternal Age
Birth intervals, History, Birth control; Birth intervals; Fertility limitation; Preventive check; Spacing; Birth Intervals; Birth Rate; Contraception; England; Family Characteristics; History, 16th Century; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; Humans; Income; Maternal Age; Socioeconomic Factors; Weather, Preventive check, 18th Century, Settore SECS-P/02 - Politica Economica, Faculty of Social Sciences, Article, Settore SECS-P/12 - Storia Economica, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfSocialSciences, Humans, Birth control, Birth Rate, 16th Century, Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica, Weather, Demography, Family Characteristics, 19th Century, Spacing, Spacing; Birth intervals; Birth control; Fertility limitation; Preventive check, Fertility limitation, Contraception, England, Socioeconomic Factors, Income, 17th Century, Maternal Age
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: media_common.quotation_subject Birth rate Birth control Birth intervals Socioeconomic status media_common Birth spacing Geography Bedroom Demography
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- University of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Departement of Economics United States
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Denmark
- University of Warwick United Kingdom
- Sapienza University of Rome Italy
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Københavns Universitet Denmark
- Centre for Economic Policy Research United Kingdom
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- IT University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Department of Economics Brown University United States
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Economic Policy Institute United States
- Department of Economics University of Copenhagen Denmark
- University of Bergamo Italy
- Centre for Economic Policy Research United Kingdom
- Utrecht University Netherlands
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Denmark
- Brown University United States
- University of Copenhagen Denmark
We use duration models on a well-known historical data set of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent children. The effects were larger among the lower socioeconomic ranks. Our findings on the existence of parity-dependent as well as parity-independent birth spacing in England are consistent with the growing evidence that marital birth control was present in pre-transitional populations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13524-017-0556-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.