Jan de Vries on Historical Demography
Policy questions and historical research advances
- How does pop growth affect exon growth?
- In what demographic setting did exon growth emerge?
A Malthusian world?
- Models
- Realities
- High vs. low pressure
- Eueipean marriage pattern
- Really a "motionless" society?
The Demographic Transition
- How did it start? Exog or endog?
- Why fertility decline when?
- How does the transition end?
American Exceptionalism?
- Malthus in a benign environment
- Antebellum puzzles
- Declining fertility--target and strategic bequests
- Rising mortality
- Immigration
- Baby booms and busts: echoes
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