Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - In: European Review of Economic History 17 (2013) 1, pp. 24-44
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 women's education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses—1816, 1849,...