A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics: 1751-1990

Zvi Eckstein (), Pedro Mira and Kenneth I. Wolpin
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Kenneth I. Wolpin: University of Pennsylvania

Review of Economic Dynamics, 1999, vol. 2, issue 1, 137-165

Abstract: 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 declines from more that four children per female before the mid-19th century to about two children today. About 80% of this decline was in fertility at female ages over 30. The fitted model implies that reductions in child mortality is the most important factor explaining the fertility decline. (Copyright: Elsevier)

JEL-codes: I21 J11 N30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1006/redy.1998.0041

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