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Browsing Faculty Publications - Labor Economics by Subject "birth rates"
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Malthus Was Right After All: Poor Relief and Birth Rates in Southeastern England
(1989-02-01)The payment of child allowances to laborers with large families was widespread in early nineteenth-century England. This paper tests Thomas Malthus's hypothesis that child allowances caused the birth rate to increase. A ...
