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The previous section has shown that variations in birth rates were an important mechanism of demographic change. We can distinguish four factors which may help in understanding these variations: compositional effects, illegitimacy and pre-nuptial pregnancy, changes in marital fertility, and changes in marriage patterns.
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Anderson, M. (1988). Fertility and Nuptiality. In: Population Change in North-Western Europe, 1750–1850. Studies in Economic and Social History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06558-5_6
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