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| Title: | | The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition  |
| Authors: | | Becker, Sascha O. Cinnirella, Francesco Woessmann, Ludger |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4557 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Schooling fertility transition unified growth theory 19th-century Prussia |
| JEL: | | I20 J13 N33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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