Sascha O. Becker|Francesco Cinnirella|Ludger Woessmann
The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
University of Warwick|Ifo Institute for Economic Research|Ifo Institute for Economic Research
interaction investment childrens education parental fertility crucial recent theories transition malthusian stagnation modern economic growth paper contributes literature child quantityquality tradeoff new countylevel evidence prussia 1816 several decades demographic transition find significant negative causal effect education fertility robust accounting spatial autocorrelation causal effect education identified exogenous variation enrollment rates due differences landownership inequality comparison estimates 1849 suggests preference quality relative quantity might increased first half nineteenth century