In recent years, the research inspired by John Hajnal's hypothesis concerning European marriage has been followed by work on the balance between population and resources and on the prevalence of the nuclear family in Europe. These new directions have raised questions about the Hajnal hypothesis and a number of them are dealt with by the articles in the present collection.
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