Rouen fertility decline 1640-1790 driven by upper class women going childless to participate in society http://sites.uclouvain.be/econ/DP/IRES/2016014.pdf …
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Replying to @bswud
i.e. driven by cost of kids, but, unusually, not the cost of educating kids or the cost of them not working (it seems)
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
the childless thing is so interesting, seems shocking that people would do it in 1600s
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ever seen this? http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/00221950151115061?journalCode=jinh … sudden emergence of convent life as open to high status womenpic.twitter.com/xq4J5QsO7H
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