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Title: The Geography of Social Change

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: We investigate how and when social change arises. We use data on the spatial diffusion of the fertility transition across US counties to identify the contribution of coordination and learning in the emergence of a new family model. We provide several measures of local and global spatial correlation to establish the existence of a significant geographic pattern in the data. We propose a mechanism in which cultural assimilation is the engine of the fertility transition. Using Census data starting from 1850, we estimate the speed of fertility assimilation for the different ethnic groups to show that their process of convergence is a crucial channel to explain the aggregate decline of fertility rate over time and across space

Url: https://www.economicdynamics.org/meetpapers/2014/paper_1388.pdf

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Authors: Fogli, Alessandra; Marcassa, Stefania

Publisher: Economic Dynamics

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Other

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