Friday, November 21 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Dearborn 2 (7th Floor)

Session 53
Historical Change in Fertility Timing and Quantum

Chair: Maria Stanfors, Centre for Economic Demography/Dept of Economic History, Lund University
Discussant: J. David Hacker, University of Minnesota

1. Avoiding Inauspicious Births: Fire-Horse Superstition and Sex-Selective Reproduction in Early Modern Japan • Satomi Kurosu, Reitaku University.

2. Work, Marriage, and Motherhood in Derbyshire: Event History Analysis of Women's Employment and Fertility Histories, 1881-1911 • Emma Diduch, University of Cambridge.

3. The Urban Penalty Meets the SES Gradient: A Full-Population Study of Child Mortality in Sweden at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. • Marcos Castillo, Lund University; Martin Dribe, Lund University.

4. Solving the Antebellum Puzzle: New Evidence from Childhood Sex Ratios • Jesse McDevitt-Irwin, University of Chicago.

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