Fertility decline in the United States, 1850-1930: New Evidence from Complete-Count Datasets
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Between 1835 and 1935, total fertility in the United States fell from 7.0 to 2.1. New IPUMS complete-count microdata databases of the 1850, 1880, 1910, and 1930 U. S. censuses allow us to study the fertility decline in more detail than previously possible. We ... ...
