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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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125696

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

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

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 - CESifo - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534051

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

Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016

Kuhn, Moritz - 2018

Finances. The household-level data allow us to study the joint distributions of household income and wealth since 1949. We … shift the wealth distribution because the composition and leverage of household portfolios differ systematically along the … all American households have less wealth today in real terms than the median household had in 1970 …

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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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Who Voted for Brexit? Individual and Regional Data Combined

Alabrese, Eleonora - 2018

-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK's largest household survey, which includes the EU …

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The Costs of Economic Nationalism : Evidence from the Brexit Experiment

Born, Benjamin - 2018

Economic nationalism is on the rise. What are the costs of cutting back international economic integration and rising policy uncertainty? We use the unexpected outcome of the Brexit vote in June 2016 as a natural macroeconomic experiment to study the costs of economic disintegration and their...

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