The decline of fertility in the nineteenth century. What have we learned since the Princeton project? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The demographic transition continues to be one of the most fascinating big societal changes of modern times. Despite decades of research, far from everything has been said and done about the transition in general and about the nineteenth-century fertility part of it in particular. The second demographic transition, dominating the agenda of contemporary demography, is important and fascinating as well, but all evolutions summarized under that ...