Editing Demographic transition (section)

==History==
The theory is based on an interpretation of [[demography|demographic]] history developed in 1930 by the American demographer [[Warren Thompson, demographer|Warren Thompson]] (1887–1973).<ref name=DemenyAndMcNicoll>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Warren Thompson|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Population|volume=2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse/page/939 939–40]|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Reference]]|year=2003|isbn=978-0-02-865677-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse/page/939}}</ref> [[Adolphe Landry]] of France made similar observations on demographic patterns and population growth potential around 1934.<ref name=":4">{{cite journal|last1=Landry|first1=Adolphe|title=Adolphe Landry on the Demographic transition Revolution|journal=Population and Development Review|date=December 1987|volume=13|issue=4|pages=731–740|doi=10.2307/1973031|jstor=1973031}}</ref> In the 1940s and 1950s [[Frank W. Notestein]] developed a more formal theory of demographic transition.<ref name="Woods2000">{{cite book|last=Woods|first=Robert|title=The Demography of Victorian England and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75DZmQtybMwC&pg=PA18|date=2000-10-05|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-78254-8|pages=18}}</ref> In the 2000s [[Oded Galor]] researched the "various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition, assessing their empirical validity, and their potential role in the transition from stagnation to growth."<ref name="jstor.org"/> In 2011, the [[unified growth theory]] was completed, the demographic transition becomes an important part in unified growth theory.<ref name="Unified Growth Theory"/> By 2009, the existence of a negative correlation between fertility and industrial development had become one of the most widely accepted findings in social science.<ref name="Nature" />

The [[Jews of Bohemia and Moravia]] were among the first populations to experience a demographic transition, in the 18th century, prior to changes in mortality or fertility in other [[European Jews]] or in Christians living in the [[Czech lands]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vobecka |first1=Jana |title=Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah |date=2013 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-615-5225-33-8 |page=xvi |language=en}}</ref> [[John Caldwell (demographer)]] explained fertility rates in the third world are not dependent on the spread of industrialization or even on economic development and also illustrates fertility decline is more likely to precede industrialization and to help bring it about than to follow it.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=John C|first1=Caldwell|date=1976|title=Toward A Retatement of Demographic Transition Theory |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1971615|journal=Population and Development Review |volume=2|issue=3|pages=321–366|doi=10.2307/1971615 |jstor=1971615 }}</ref>