Régimes et transitions démographiques en Europe de l’Ouest. Un essai de synthèse

Eggerickx, Thierry

doi:10.3917/adh.129.0113

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“…Our paper provides support only for the first relationship, the "preventive check" and has nothing to say about the two other complementary relationships. Since Goubert (1960: 77-80), several studies have observed different demographic regimes according to social status, especially delayed marriage for the lower classes (see several references in Eggerickx, 2015). For instance, Medick stressed that the delayed marriage phenomenon was more powerful for the lower classes (Medick, 1981: 76).…”

Section: Figure 3 Male and Female Literacy Over Timementioning

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The European Marriage Pattern and its Positive Consequences Montesquieu-Volvestre, 1660-1789

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Tallec

2018

SSRN Journal

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For a French village, we reconstitute most families and build accurate measurements of economic conditions. Combined with marriage contracts (systematic in this writtenlaw area), we are able to control for wealth, Stem households and social status of father and husband for a representative sample. We clarify the operation of the EMP system: bad economic conditions resulted in later female age at marriage, which had positive consequences, such as fewer children, adjusting the population level, and a smaller age difference between spouses, allowing greater agency for women within the couple. A supposed positive effect on human capital is not significant.

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Section: Figure 3 Male and Female Literacy Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%