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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

instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. -- schooling ; fertility transition ; unified …

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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia

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

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … increased during the first half of the nineteenth century. -- education ; fertility ; quantity-quality trade-off ; unified …

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Does parental education affect fertility? : evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia

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

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … 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 exogenous variation in women …

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What can economists learn from happiness research?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important...

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners...

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Happiness of economists

Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...

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Tullock challenges : happiness, revolutions and democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

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