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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. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2011 (Number 41).
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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 (Working Paper) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Education -- Prussia , Fertility -- Prussia, Parents -- Prussia | ||||
| Series Name: | CAGE Online Working Paper Series | ||||
| Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||
| Official Date: | 4 April 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 2011 | ||||
| Number: | Number 41 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 37 | ||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
| Funder: | Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) | ||||
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