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Title: Demography in American Economic History
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2018
ISBN: 9780190937065
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Abstract: In the two hundred years since the first federal census of the United States in 1790, the population of the United States increased from about 4 million to almost 309 million persons in 2010. This was predominantly due to natural increase, early driven by high birth rates and moderate mortality levels and later (after the Civil War) by declining death rates. In addition, over 76 million recorded legal immigrant arrivals (1819-2010) increased the growth rate. By the two decades prior to World War I, about one-third of the total increase originated in net migration, which has also been true since 1980. A number of unusual features characterized the American demographic transition. The fertility transition was early (dating from at least 1800) and from very high levels . . .
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Authors: Haines, Michael, R
Editors: Cain, Louis, P; Fishback, Price, V; Rhode, Paul, W
Pages: 29-52
Volume Title: The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Location: Oxford, England, UK
Volume: 1
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other, Population Data Science, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography
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