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DP13178 Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1930
Zvi Eckstein; Maristella Botticini
发表日期2018-09-13
出版年2018
语种英语
摘要Economists growingly highlight the fundamental role that human capital formation, institutions, cultural transmission, and religious norms may each distinctively play in shaping health, knowledge, and wealth. We contribute to this debate by studying one of the most remarkable instances in which religious norms and child care practices had a major impact on demographic and economic patterns: the history of the Jews in central and eastern Europe from 1500 to 1930. After documenting that the Jewish population in Poland Lithuania increased at a strikingly high annual rate of 1.37 percent during this period, we investigate the engines of this exceptional growth. We show that while Jewish and non-Jewish birth rates were about the same, infant and child mortality among Jews was much lower and account for the main difference (70 percent) in Jewish versus non-Jewish natural population growth. Our contribution stems from documenting that Jewish families routinely adopted childcare practices that recent medical research has shown as enhancing infants’ and children’s well-being. These practices, deeply rooted in Talmudic rulings, account for the lower infant and child mortality among Jews, and in turn, for the higher Jewish population growth rate in eastern and central Europe between 1500 and 1930. The key insight of our work is that once Judaism became a “literate religion,” infant and child care, as well as enhancing offspring’s’ cognitive skills, became focal activities of Jewish households.
主题Economic History ; Labour Economics
关键词Infant mortality Jewish history Population growth Religious norms Eastern europe Child care
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp13178
来源智库Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541982
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Zvi Eckstein,Maristella Botticini. DP13178 Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1930. 2018.
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