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Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia
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Becker, Sascha O., Cinnirella, Francesco and Woessmann, Ludger (2011) Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia. Discussion Paper. Coventry: Centre for Economic Policy Research. CEPR Discussion Paper (No.8339). (Unpublished)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) | ||||
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | April 2011 | ||||
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Number: | No.8339 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||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 | ||||
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