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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
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125696
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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011
affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130100
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771691
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011
, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371343
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534051
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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
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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
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias - 2011
, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117792