The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “The same importance of the institutional system as a whole emerges from the survey in Lesson 7 of historical demography, which has come to play an increasingly important role in recent literature on economic growth (Galor, 2005a,b;Acemoglu, 2009; Guinnane, 2011).”
Regional fertility data analysis: A small area Bayesian approach (2013, result): “…the first case is the rapid change in fertility rates, with heterogenous effects in the different age groups and regions, which occurred in Portugal in the final decades of the previous century; this evidence is also in line with observed variation across other developed countries (Guinnane, 2011).”
Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families (2015, background): “1 This inability to establish a positive correlation between income or education and fertility has led some scholars to doubt the assumption that children are a normal good ( Jones and Tertilt, 2008; Guinnane, 2011).”
The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future (2016, unknown): “Indirect costs include opportunity costs, such as foregone earnings of women who take time off from the 5 For further discussion of the historical aspects of the fertility transition, Guinnane (2011) provides an excellent review.”