Fertility and the Price of Children
Evidence from Slavery and Slave Emancipation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5752944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne H Wanamaker, Marianne Wanamaker (0000-0003-2611-6979, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1045-1071 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050714000850 |
| OpenAlex | W2133762256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
Theories of the demographic transition often center on the rising price of children. A model of fertility derived from household production in the antebellum United States contains both own children and slaves as inputs. Changes in slaveholdings beget changes in the marginal product of the slaveowners' own children and, hence, their price. I use panel data on slaveowning households between 1850 and 1870 to measure the slaveowners' own fertility responses to exogenous changes in slaveholdings. Results indicate a strong, negative correlation between own child prices and fertility
Demographic economics · Economics · Emancipation · Fertility · Political science · Politics · Population · Product (mathematics) · Sociology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |