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The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Guinnane, Timothy ; Moehling, Carolyn M. (Carolyn Marie) (Elsevier Science, 2006)

The relatively high marital fertility of the Irish in the United States in the 19th century has long been interpreted as evidence for the persistence of a distinctive Irish culture in the United States. This claim echoes ...
The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Guinnane, Timothy ; Moehling, Carolyn M. (Carolyn Marie) (University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Resarch, 2004-01)

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence ...