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The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition
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The trade-off between child quantity and quality 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 already in the nineteenth century, exploiting a unique census-based dataset of 334 Prussian counties in 1849. Furthermore, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways, based on separate instrumental-variable models that instrument fertility by sex ratios and education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg. Education in 1849 also predicts the fertility transition in 1880–1905.
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- Authors
- Becker, S. O., Cinnirella, F., & Woessmann, L.
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Growth
- Published
- 2010-08-13
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 177-204
- ISSN
- 1381-4338 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7020
- OpenAlex
- W1986303531
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 75
- FWCI
- 29.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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