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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Becker, Sascha O. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Cinnirella, Francesco | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Woessmann, Ludger | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-10-08 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-05-14T08:20:14Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-05-14T08:20:14Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2009 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30492 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | CESifo München | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | CESifo working paper 2775 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I20 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J13 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | N33 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | schooling | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | fertility transition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | unified growth theory | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | 19th-century Prussia | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Fruchtbarkeit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bildungsverhalten | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Allgemeinbildende Schule | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bildungsinvestition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wachstumstheorie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Demographischer Übergang | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Preußen | | en_US |
| dc.title | | The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 610180223 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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