The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia.

Autor/inn/en	Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger
Titel	The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia.
Quelle	München: CESifo (2010), 25 S., 158 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 3252. Economics of Education
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Zusatzinformation	Forschungsdaten, Studiendetails und Erhebungsinstrumente
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Investition; Kind; Preußen; Bildungsinvestition; Kind; Fruchtbarkeit; Geschichte (Histor); Demografischer Wandel; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; 19. Jahrhundert; Arbeitspapier; Preußen
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.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/3