Thomas Malthus . In what came to be known as the breakdown of the Malthusian regime , Malthus stated that following the industrial revolution and advancements in medicine , life expectancy increased , infant mortality decreased , and payoff for receiving education was higher .10 As a result , parents began to place more value on the quality of their children and not quantity . The Malthusian theory further argues that industrialised economies substantially increased their income per capita for the next centuries because of the higher...











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