87-12, Dec 1987. The author discusses demographic change in lower Alsace, France, in the period 1811-1870. Topics considered include marriage patterns and their effect on fertility, mortality, birth rate fluctuations, contraceptive usage, differences between urban and rural areas, and the impact of religion on fertility. Data are from the 1851 census and vital statistics of a sample of 30 communes. Population Studies Centre, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada.
Consideration is given to the relationships among marriage age, fertility, and social class.
Comparisons are made with Osaka and a representative rural district. Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan 1989. From this model we derive a reduced-form equation that explains the amount of invention in farming. Using the number of titles of didactic books published on farming techniques and the number of agricultural patents issued as alternate measures of invention, we estimate the reduced-form equation.