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 …

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 …

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 …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … that the fertility decline is a neglected source of the rapid improvement in health in the first half of the twentieth … century. -- Fertility decline ; heights of children ; health in Britain …

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … that the fertility decline is a neglected source of the rapid improvement in health in the first half of the twentieth …