id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nccegy3ysvaznaimw2r6myoxjm Martha J Bailey Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish 2011.0 40 .pdf application/pdf 13370 1035 63 model that integrates fertility decisions, advances in household technology, and changes in wage the "baby boomers," had completed fertility rates as high as women born in the late nineteenth century. technology, combined with existing county-level census data on fertility and other household 9 Three parameters determine fertility trends in the GSV model (2005: 205): (1) the state of household technology, census volumes for the 1940 to 1960 period.19 We supplemented these data with publiclyavailable, county-level economic and demographic information collected by Michael Haines may affect both fertility rates and the state of household technology, X includes median years of (including women's labor-force participation), unobservable state-level changes, and timeinvariant county-level unobservable characteristics (column 3), the coefficient estimates are still between the state of household technology and completed fertility, cohorts born into states with completed fertility of likely Old Order Amish can only be tracked in the census data for the most "state of household technology" or completed fertility. ./cache/work_nccegy3ysvaznaimw2r6myoxjm.pdf ./txt/work_nccegy3ysvaznaimw2r6myoxjm.txt