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Autor/inn/en | Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger |
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Titel | Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia. |
Quelle | München: CESifo (2011), 27 S., 514,11 KB
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Reihe | CESifo working paper. 3430 |
Beigaben | grafische Darstellungen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Monographie; Graue Literatur |
Schlagwörter | Schätzung; Übergang; Fruchtbarkeit; Frauenbildung; Arbeitspapier; Preußen |
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. |
Erfasst von | ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel |
Update | 2011/4 |