Behind the fertility–education nexus: what triggered the French development process?

Claude Diebolt, Audrey-Rose Menard () and Faustine Perrin
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Audrey-Rose Menard: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Faustine Perrin: Skane University Hospital [Lund]

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Abstract: The education-fertility relationship is a central element of the models explaining the transition to sustained economic growth. But many determinants of this relationship have not yet received more systematic attention. In this paper, we apply a three-stages least-squares estimator on French county-level data, including newly collected data, to better understand the causal effects running from education to fertility, and vice versa. We put forward the hypothesis that a decrease in fertility was strongly associated with greater schooling in France during the nineteenth century. Besides, we emphasize the relevance of taking account of gender equality and family organization when explaining the education-fertility relationship.

Keywords: Education; Fertility; Economic growth; Family; Nineteenth century; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in European Review of Economic History, 2017, 21 (4), pp.357-392. ⟨10.1093/ereh/hex008⟩

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Working Paper: Behind the Fertility-Education Nexus: What Triggered the French Development Process? (2016)
Working Paper: Behind the Fertility-Education Nexus: What Triggered the French Development Process? (2016)
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DOI: 10.1093/ereh/hex008

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