A new paper by Jeanne Cilliers, Martine Mariotti, and Igor Martins, titled Fertility Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress: Price Volatility and Wealth Shocks in a Pre-Transitional Settler Colony, has been published in Explorations in Economic History. The study uses genealogical data from the Cape Colony to examine how economic shocks, including slave emancipation and price volatility, influenced fertility behaviour. The authors find limited evidence of fertility responses to price volatility but significant shifts in birth intervals among former slave-owning households following emancipation, shedding light on the nuanced economic resilience of settler families in this preindustrial society.