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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574577
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The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
Newell, Andrew T.; Gazeley, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
female labour market participation, which is in turn related to fertility reduction. Lastly we find that more rapid urban … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575481
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Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group’s baseline schooling and exploits variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763915
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268880
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayioglu; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225779
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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149768
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752231
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Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production
Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703130
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703386
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional …-employment database links 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Controlling extensively for pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574589