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Title: Industrialization and Fertility in the 19th Century: Evidence from South Carolina
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Publication Year: 2011
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Abstract: Economists have frequently hypothesized that industrialization contributed to the United States' 19th century fertility decline. I exploit the circumstances surrounding industrialization in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 to show that the establishment of textile mills coincided with a 610 percent reduction in fertility. Migrating households are responsible for most of the observed decline. Higher rates of textile employment and child mortality for migrants can explain part of the result, and I conjecture that an increase in childraising costs induced by the separation of migrant households from their extended families may explain the remaining gap in migrantnative fertility.
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Authors: Wanamaker, Marianne H.
Publisher: University of Tennessee
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Other
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