The trade-off between fertility and education. Evidence from before the demographic transition.

Autor/inn/en	Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger
Titel	The trade-off between fertility and education. Evidence from before the demographic transition.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2009), 23 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 4557
Beigaben	Karten
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Investition; Preußen; Wachstumstheorie; Allgemein bildende Schule; Bildungsinvestition; 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	2010/3