The Emergence of the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff - insights from early modern academics
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Keywords
Fertility; Human Capital; Premodern Europe; Universities; Academies; Evolution; Natural Selection; Malthusian Stagnation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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- NEP-EVO-2023-09-11 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2023-09-11 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2023-09-11 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2023-09-11 (Labour Economics)
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