Revisiting the Fertility Transition in England and Wales: The Role of Social Class and Migration.

We use individual-level census data for England and Wales for the period 1851-1911 to investigate the interplay between social class and geographical context determining patterns of childbearing during the fertility transition. We also consider the effect of spatial mobility or lifetime migration on...

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Publicado en:Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 1543 - 1570
Autores principales: Jaadla, Hannaliis, Reid, Alice, Garrett, Eilidh, Schürer, Kevin, Day, Joseph
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Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2020
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          Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EN, Cambridge, UK
          Estonian Institute for Population Studies, Tallinn University, 10120, Tallinn, Estonia
          Department of History, University of Essex, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK
          Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, LE1 7QR, Leicester, England
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