Abstract We test Le Play's (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to
France's early fertility decline. In 1793, a series of inheritance reforms abolished local …

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 …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample
of Swedish lottery players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and …

We exploit a staggered reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the late 1990s in China
to provide plausibly causal evidence that job insecurity has a first-order impact on fertility …

I study how agricultural technological change affects labour market opportunities and fertility
in a developing country context. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the adoption of …

This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural
sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely …

We analyze the link between agricultural productivity growth and fertility rates, using the oil
palm boom in Indonesia as an empirical setting. We find consistent negative effects of oil …

The causes and extent of regional inequality in the process of economic growth are at the
core of historical economic research. So far, much attention has been devoted to studying …

This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to
measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary …

The introduction of new production technologies is often regarded as one of the key drivers
of the historical fertility transition in the US and Western Europe. In contrast, empirical …