Volume 24 - Article 14 | Pages 313–344  

Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition: Evidence of resource dilution from the city of Antwerp in nineteenth century Belgium

By Jan Van Bavel, Sarah Moreels, Bart Van de Putte, Koen Matthijs

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