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Autor/inn/en | Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger |
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Titel | The trade-off between fertility and education. Evidence from before the demographic transition. |
Quelle | München: CESifo (2009), 33 S.
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Reihe | CESifo working paper. 2775. Economics of Education |
Beigaben | grafische Darstellungen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Monographie; Graue Literatur |
Schlagwörter | Bildungsverhalten; Allgemein bildende Schule; Fruchtbarkeit; Demografischer Wandel; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; Wachstumstheorie; Arbeitspapier; Preußen |
Abstract | The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique census-based dataset of 334 Prussian counties in 1849. Estimating two separate instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. |
Erfasst von | ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel |
Update | 2010/1 |