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dc.contributor.authorBecker, Sascha O.en
dc.contributor.authorCinnirella, Francescoen
dc.contributor.authorWoessmann, Ludgeren
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-08-
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-14T08:20:14Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-14T08:20:14Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/30492-
dc.description.abstractThe 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.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x2775en
dc.subject.jelI20en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.jelN33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordschoolingen
dc.subject.keywordfertility transitionen
dc.subject.keywordunified growth theoryen
dc.subject.keyword19th-century Prussiaen
dc.subject.stwFruchtbarkeiten
dc.subject.stwBildungsverhaltenen
dc.subject.stwAllgemeinbildende Schuleen
dc.subject.stwBildungsinvestitionen
dc.subject.stwWachstumstheorieen
dc.subject.stwDemographischer Übergangen
dc.subject.stwPreußenen
dc.titleThe trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn610180223en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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