Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Social and Spatial Distance in the Fertility Transition

Sebastian Klüsener (MPIDR / Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany); in Collaboration with Martin Dribe (Lund University, Sweden), Francesco Scalone (University of Bologna, Italy), Joshua R. Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

The fertility transition was characterized by substantial social-class and spatial variation in terms of both the onset and the intensity of the fertility decline. We explore the determinants of this variation in order to improve our understanding of how social change is moderated by social and spatial distance.  Detailed Description

Publications

Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:

Spatial and social distance at the onset of the fertility transition: Sweden, 1880-1900

Demography 56:1, 169–199. (2019)    

Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:

Spatial and social distance in the fertility transition: Sweden 1880-1900

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-009. (2016)