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Economic Factors and Fertility Decline in France and Belgium

In: Economic Factors in Population Growth

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  • R. Lesthaeghe

    (Office of Population Research)

  • E. Walle

    (Office of Population Research)

Abstract

If the populations of the developing world were perceiving their best economic interest with the same logic as members of the academic profession, the birth-rate would be low where income per head is low and fertility control would be an accepted method of influencing the well-being of individuals. Logically, large families would prevail in rich countries and among rich people, and the poor would get no children. Unfortunately this kind of reasoning is of little help. The etymology of proletarian is proles, progeny. Even two hundred years ago, Jacques the Fatalist was granting to his master: ‘Nothing populates like the rabble.’

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  • R. Lesthaeghe & E. Walle, 1976. "Economic Factors and Fertility Decline in France and Belgium," International Economic Association Series, in: Ansley J. Coale (ed.), Economic Factors in Population Growth, chapter 7, pages 205-237, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-02518-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02518-3_7
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    1. Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem, 2002. "Does the Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 7(4), pages 411-439, December.

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