Fertility and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

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Abstract: This paper provides evidence that the form of agriculture traditionally practiced—intensive plough agriculture versus shifting hoe agriculture—affected historic norms and preferences about fertility, and that these norms persist, affecting observed fertility around the world today.

Date: 2011
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Published in American Economic Review

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