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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2010

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135779

Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

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,...

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Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that … lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence …s. We also give microeconometric evidence for Italy, a country for which we have access to household …

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The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

The trade-off between child quantity and education 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 before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...

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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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Prussia disaggregated: the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town, village, and manor). We find that Jews live predominantly...

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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011

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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020793

The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799738

Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis

Becker, Sascha O. - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

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