period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

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 … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental‐variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

. -- demographic transition ; female education ; fertility ; nineteenth century Prussia … 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 …

Prussia. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from 1700 with Prussian firm-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in … Brandenburg-Prussia where they were channeled into towns to compensate population losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years …