A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics: 1751-1990

Zvi Eckstein (), P. Mira and K.. Wolpin

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition. We take an overlapping generations model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility decline for more than four children per female before the mid-19'th century to about two children today.

Keywords: FERTILITY; MORTALITY; WAGES; MODELS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J14 C51 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997

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