Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 561-588 (30 pages) BACKGROUND In the last half of the previous century many developed countries went through a period of decreasing fertility ...
The Industrial Revolution that brought unprecedented economic growth to Western Europe and North America also coincided with a new epoch in population dynamics (Galor, 2005). Countries moved from a ...
Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 1297-1332 (38 pages) BACKGROUND Several theories compete to explain the main drivers of urbanisation, past and present, in relation to both ...