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Reply to Bogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Richard A. Easterlin
Richard A. Easterlin
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University of Pennsylvania
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Papers Presented at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 81 - 83
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1976

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1 The case for the modernization variables is discussed at length by Vinovskis, Maris A. in “Demographic Changes in America from the Revolution to the Civil War: An Analysis of the Socio-Economic Determinants of Fertility Differentials and Trends in Massachusetts from 1765 to 1860” (PhiD. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1975), pp. 113–142.Google Scholar

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6 Pressly and Scofield, Farm Real Estate Values, pp. 25, 35.

7 In amplification of this line of interpretation it was suggested from the floor that fanners might have wished to keep farming sons close at hand as insurance against the uncertainties of old age, thereby creating a kind of primitive social security system.

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