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Enclosures and Fertility in Southern Sweden. Were peasants consciously regulating their decisions regarding family size?

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Author

  • Raúl Burgos

Summary, in English

This study analyzes the total fertility rate for twenty parishes in southern Sweden from 1785-1840 and its relationship with the enclosure movement. The analysis shows that the total fertility rate increases after enclosures took place. The explanation of these results is that peasants forsaw a profitable economic future because of the change in property rights and the change in the way agriculture was carried out

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Document type

Student publication for Master's degree (one year)

Topic

  • History and Archaeology

Keywords

  • Scania
  • Enclosures
  • Institutional Economics
  • Social and economic history
  • Ekonomisk och social historia

Supervisor

  • Tommy Bengtsson