The influence of social mobility on fertility behaviour in the long run. An application of Diagonal Reference Models (DRM) to Historical Demography (Southern Sweden, 1870-2015)
Social science has always been interested in the effect of social mobility on fertility behavior, bringing mixed evidence. Part of this is due to an identification problem. Accordingly, conventional models cannot disentangle which effects are due to social mobility, background, or origin alone. Diagonal reference models accurately estimate the additional impact of social mobility, net of backgroun