Understanding Demographic Transitions An Overview of French Historic

This book studies the process of demographic transition which has played a key role in the economic development of Western countries. The special focus is on France, which constitutes the first clear case of fertility decline in Europe. The book analyzes

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Claude Diebolt Faustine Perrin

Understanding Demographic Transitions An Overview of French Historical Statistics

Population Economics

Editor-in-chief Klaus F. Zimmermann Harvard University USA UNU-MERIT Maastricht, The Netherlands Managing Editor Alessio J.G. Brown UNU-MERIT Maastricht, The Netherlands

Series Editors Alessandro Cigno University of Florence Florence, Italy Erdal Tekin American University Washington D.C., USA Junsen Zhang The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong

More information about this series at: http://www.springer.com/series/2190

Claude Diebolt • Faustine Perrin

Understanding Demographic Transitions An Overview of French Historical Statistics

Claude Diebolt BETA/CNRS, Faculty of Economics University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, France

Faustine Perrin Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Management Lund University Lund, Sweden

ISSN 1431-6978 Population Economics ISBN 978-3-319-44650-9 ISBN 978-3-319-44651-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44651-6

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Acknowledgment

Our book is an attempt to stimulate scholarly discussion and to enhance our general understanding of demographic transitions. First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to our families for the substantial psychological and material support they provided during the journey. In addition, we are deeply indebted to the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study, the Department of Economic History at Lund University, and the Bureau d’Economie The´orique et Applique´e (UMR 7522) for their financial support. We also wo