Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 29-44
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
