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Step-by-step explanation:
Economists have frequently hypothesized that industrialization contributed to the
United States' 19th century fertility decline. I exploit the circumstances surrounding
industrialization in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 to show that the
establishment of textile mills coincided with a 6‐10 percent reduction in fertility.
Migrating households are responsible for most of the observed decline. Higher rates of
textile employment and child mortality for migrants can explain part of the result, and I
conjecture that an increase in child‐raising costs induced by the separation of migrant
households from their extended families may explain the remaining gap in migrant‐
native fertility.
By the dawn of the 20th century, fertility rates in the United States had undergone a century of
steady decline. In 1800, white American females could expect to bear 7.0 children on average; by 1900,
this number was 3.6.1 The factors behind the 19th century decline have been the subject of a lengthy
literature highlighting the importance of intergenerational bequests, the economic value of children,
and the cultural context for American family formation.
Yasukichi Yasuba initiated the literature on the importance of land availability to the bequest process,
noting that those locations with lower land prices experienced higher fertility rates and vice versa.2
William Sundstrom and Paul David and Susan B. Carter, Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch present
alternatives to the land availability hypothesis for explaining the 19th century decline emphasizing the