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 women's 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 educational variation deriving from landownership concentration, as well as panel estimates controlling for fixed effects of counties, suggest that the effect of women's education on fertility is causal.

(2013). Does women's education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia [journal article - articolo]. In EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ECONOMIC HISTORY. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/146339

Does women's education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia

Cinnirella, Francesco;
2013-01-01

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 women's 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 educational variation deriving from landownership concentration, as well as panel estimates controlling for fixed effects of counties, suggest that the effect of women's education on fertility is causal.
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Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger
(2013). Does women's education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia [journal article - articolo]. In EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ECONOMIC HISTORY. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/146339
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