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dc.contributor.author | Becker, Sascha O. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Cinnirella, Francesco | en |
dc.contributor.author | Woessmann, Ludger | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-10-08 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-14T08:20:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-14T08:20:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
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 |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCESifo Working Paper |x2775 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I20 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J13 | en |
dc.subject.jel | N33 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | schooling | en |
dc.subject.keyword | fertility transition | en |
dc.subject.keyword | unified growth theory | en |
dc.subject.keyword | 19th-century Prussia | en |
dc.subject.stw | Fruchtbarkeit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bildungsverhalten | en |
dc.subject.stw | Allgemeinbildende Schule | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bildungsinvestition | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wachstumstheorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Demographischer Übergang | en |
dc.subject.stw | Preußen | en |
dc.title | The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 610180223 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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