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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP8339 |
DP8339 Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia | |
Ludger Woessmann; Sascha O. Becker; Francesco Cinnirella | |
发表日期 | 2011-04-01 |
出版年 | 2011 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | 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. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Demographic transition Female education Fertility Nineteenth century prussia |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8339 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537166 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ludger Woessmann,Sascha O. Becker,Francesco Cinnirella. DP8339 Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia. 2011. |
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