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Name:  Gregory Clark
Email:  gclark at ucdavis.edu
Institution:  University of California, Davis

Co-author: none

Title:  Human Capital, Fertility and the Industrial Revolution

Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark

By mail:
Department of Economics
University of California
Davis, CA 95616

Language:  English

Abstract:
The Industrial Revolution and the Demographic Transition are the two 
great forces that explain the upward march of modern incomes. This 
paper sets out the empirical realities and attempts to unify these 
events through theories of human capital investment. The major 
difficulty is to form an explanation that connects them, and which 
can also reconcile the seeming differences in fertility behavior over 
time and in cross section in the pre-industrial world, the transition 
period, and the modern world.

Bibliography: Clark, Gregory. "Human Capital, Fertility and the 
Industrial Revolution." Forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic 
Association, 2005.

Subject:  J
Geographical Area:  4
Country/Region:  England
Time Period:  0

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