. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. -- schooling ; fertility transition ; unified … demographic transition, exploiting a unique census-based dataset of 334 Prussian counties in 1849. Estimating two separate … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …-quality trade-off with new county-level evidence for Prussia in 1816, several decades before the demographic transition. We find a … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905 … demographic transition, exploiting a unique census-based dataset of 334 Prussian counties in 1849. Estimating two separate … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by …

. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905 … demographic transition, exploiting a unique census-based dataset of 334 Prussian counties in 1849. Estimating two separate … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …-quality trade-off with new county-level evidence for Prussia in 1816, several decades before the demographic transition. We find a … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

and a fixed effect two-stage least squares model, this study exploits variations in fertility and in human capital …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816, 1849, and 1867 - to estimate the relationship between women's education and … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a …

Prussia, we estimate differences-in-differences models that ask whether marriage and marital fertility reacted to the …Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard … classes of workers, and because fertility in Germany in this period was still relatively high. Focusing on the state of …

Prussia, we estimate differences-in-differences models that ask whether marriage and marital fertility reacted to the …Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard … classes of workers, and because fertility in Germany in this period was still relatively high. Focusing on the state of …