Arbeitspapier
Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3430
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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demographic transition
female education
fertility
nineteenth century Prussia
Frauenbildung
Fruchtbarkeit
Demographischer Übergang
Schätzung
Preußen
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Becker, Sascha O.
Cinnirella, Francesco
Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Cinnirella, Francesco
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2011
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