TY - JOUR
T1 - A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics
T2 - 1751-1990
AU - Eckstein, Zvi
AU - Mira, Pedro
AU - Wolpin, Kenneth I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality, and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition. We fit a model of life-cycle fertility to two and a half centuries of Swedish time-series data. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility decline from more than four children per female before the mid-nineteenth century to about two children today. About 80% of this decline was in fertility at female ages over 30. The fitted model implies that reduction in child mortality is the most important factor explaining the fertility decline. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: I21, J11, N30. Q 1999 Academic Press * Pedro Mira gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Spanish DGES, grant PB 96-0134. Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth I. Wolpin are grateful for support from the National Science Foundation under grant no. SBR-9309636. We benefitted from comments made by a referee for this journal.
PY - 1999/1
Y1 - 1999/1
N2 - This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality, and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition. We fit a model of life-cycle fertility to two and a half centuries of Swedish time-series data. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility decline from more than four children per female before the mid-nineteenth century to about two children today. About 80% of this decline was in fertility at female ages over 30. The fitted model implies that reduction in child mortality is the most important factor explaining the fertility decline.Journal of Economic LiteratureClassification Numbers: I21, J11, N30.
AB - This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality, and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition. We fit a model of life-cycle fertility to two and a half centuries of Swedish time-series data. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility decline from more than four children per female before the mid-nineteenth century to about two children today. About 80% of this decline was in fertility at female ages over 30. The fitted model implies that reduction in child mortality is the most important factor explaining the fertility decline.Journal of Economic LiteratureClassification Numbers: I21, J11, N30.
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U2 - 10.1006/redy.1998.0041
DO - 10.1006/redy.1998.0041
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AN - SCOPUS:0000203458
SN - 1094-2025
VL - 2
SP - 137
EP - 165
JO - Review of Economic Dynamics
JF - Review of Economic Dynamics
IS - 1
ER -