When smaller families look contagious: a spatial look at the French fertility decline using an agent-based simulation model

Despite some disagreements about specific timing, it is now widely accepted that France was the first European country to experience a systematic decline in fertility, a decline that took place in a very distinctive geographical pattern. Whereas two areas of low birth rates (the Seine valley and th...

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Main Authors: Gonzalez-Bailon, S, Murphy, T
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2008