Behind the Fertility-Education Nexus: What Triggered the French Development Process?

Claude Diebolt, Audrey-Rose Menard and Faustine Perrin

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: The education-fertility relationship is a central element of the models explaining the transition to sustained economic growth. In this paper, we use a three-stages least squares estimator to disentangle the causality direction of this relationship. Controlling for a wide array of socio-economic, cultural, and geographical determinants, our cliometric contribution on French counties during the nineteenth century corroborates the existence of a single negative causal link from fertility to education. We put forward the hypothesis that in France a decrease in fertility is strongly associated to greater schooling.

Keywords: Education; Family; Fertility; Growth Theory; Nineteenth-Century; France. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 J13 N33 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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