@techreport{Becker2009trade,
abstract = {The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique census-based dataset of 334 Prussian counties in 1849. Estimating two separate instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {Sascha O. Becker and Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I20; J13; N33; 330; schooling; fertility transition; unified growth theory; 19th-century Prussia; Fruchtbarkeit; Bildungsverhalten; Allgemeinbildende Schule; Bildungsinvestition; Wachstumstheorie; Demographischer \"{U}bergang; Preu\ss{}en},
language = {eng},
number = {2775},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition},
type = {CESifo working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30492},
year = {2009}
}
