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Did owner‐occupation lead to smaller families for interwar working‐class households?1

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This article examines the links between working‐class home ownership and family limitation in interwar Britain. Purchasing a suburban house enabled families to buy into a new, aspirational model of working‐class respectability. Embracing this model entailed increased accommodation costs and higher levels of conspicuous consumption, placing great strains on many household budgets. Owner‐occupiers therefore sought to limit the size of their families in order to sustain their new lifestyles. Meanwhile the new suburban ideology strongly emphasized improved standards of childcare, based around creating a high‐quality domestic environment, and thus directly encouraged families to aim for fewer, but better‐resourced children.

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  • Peter Scott, 2008. "Did owner‐occupation lead to smaller families for interwar working‐class households?1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 61(1), pages 99-124, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:61:y:2008:i:1:p:99-124
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00390.x
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    1. Ian Gazeley & Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Rebecca Searle, 2017. "The poor and the poorest, 50 years on: evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 180(2), pages 455-474, February.
    2. Ian Gazeley & Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Rebecca Searle, 2016. "The Poor and the Poorest, fifty years on: Evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s," Working Paper Series 09316, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    3. Peter Scott, 2009. "Mr Drage, Mr Everyman, and the creation of a mass market for domestic furniture in interwar Britain1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 62(4), pages 802-827, November.
    4. Hatton, Timothy J. & Martin, Richard M., 2010. "Fertility decline and the heights of children in Britain, 1886-1938," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 47(4), pages 505-519, October.
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    6. Ian Gazeley & Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Rebecca Searle, 2016. "The Poor and the Poorest, fifty years on: Evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s," Working Paper Series 9316, Department of Economics, University of Sussex.

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