Becker, Sascha O; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2011
trade-off have been studied as 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 …’s education on fertility. Instrumental variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women's education driven by differences …