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The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
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Becker, Sascha O., Cinnirella, Francesco and Woessmann, Ludger (2011) The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia. Cliometrica, Vol.6 (No.1). pp. 29-44. doi:10.1007/s11698-011-0061-8
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11698-011-0061-8
Abstract
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental
fertility is crucial in recent theories of the transition from Malthusian
stagnation to modern economic growth. This paper contributes to the
literature on the child quantity-quality trade-off with new county-level
evidence for Prussia in 1816, several decades before the demographic
transition. We find a significant negative causal effect of education on
fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The
causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in
enrollment rates due to differences in landownership inequality. A
comparison with estimates for 1849 suggests that the preference for
quality relative to quantity might have increased during the first half of
the nineteenth century.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education -- Demographic aspects -- Germany -- Prussia -- History -- 19th century, Fertility, Human -- Statistics, Fertility, Human -- Germany -- Prussia -- History -- 19th century, Prussia (Germany) -- Population | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cliometrica | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| ISSN: | 1863-2505 | ||||
| Official Date: | 18 January 2011 | ||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
| Volume: | Vol.6 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 29-44 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11698-011-0061-8 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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