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dc.contributor.authorBecker, Saschaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorFrancesco, Cinirellaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorWoessmann, Ludgeren_UK
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T02:54:31Z-
dc.date.available2017-06-22T02:54:31Z-
dc.date.issued2009-08-01en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/1598-
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.relationBecker S, Francesco C & Woessmann L (2009) The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition. Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2009-17.en_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2009-17en_UK
dc.subjectSchoolingen_UK
dc.subjectfertility transitionen_UK
dc.subjectunified growth theoryen_UK
dc.subject19th-century Prussiaen_UK
dc.subjectBirth control Prussia (Germany)en_UK
dc.subjectFertility, Human Economic aspectsen_UK
dc.titleThe Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transitionen_UK
dc.typeWorking Paperen_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusUnpublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedUnrefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.author.emailsascha.becker@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date01/08/2009en_UK
dc.subject.jelI20: Education and Research Institutions: Generalen_UK
dc.subject.jelJ13: Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youthen_UK
dc.subject.jelN33: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationEconomicsen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationIfo Institute, Germanyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Munichen_UK
dc.identifier.wtid840380en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2009-08-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2009-09-01en_UK
rioxxterms.typeWorking paperen_UK
rioxxterms.versionAMen_UK
local.rioxx.authorBecker, Sascha|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorFrancesco, Cinirella|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorWoessmann, Ludger|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2009-09-01en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved|2009-09-01|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameSEDP-2009-17-Becker-Cinnirella-Woessmann.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
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