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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |