Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia.

Autor/inn/en	Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger
Titel	Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia.
Quelle	München: CESifo (2011), 27 S., 514,11 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 3430
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Frauenbildung; Preußen; 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