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Randomness in the Bedroom: There Is No Evidence for Fertility Control in Pre-Industrial England

Overturning a generation of research, Cinnirella et al. Demography, 54, 413–436 (2017) found strong parity-dependent fertility control in pre-Industrial England 1540–1850. We show that their result is an unfortunate artifact of their statistical method, relying on mother fixed effects, which contrad...

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Autores principales: Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6667415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31209838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00786-2