Becker, Sascha O., Cinnirella, Francesco and Woessmann, Ludger (2011) Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia. Discussion Paper. Centre for Economic Policy Research, Coventry. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849, and 1867--to estimate the relationship between women’s education and their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a negative residual effect of women’s education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women's education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women’s education on fertility is causal.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Discussion Paper)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Series Name:	CEPR Discussion Paper
Publisher:	Centre for Economic Policy Research
Place of Publication:	Coventry
Date:	April 2011
Number:	No.8339
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Pact for Research and Innovation of the Leibniz Association
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/45519

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