Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: Evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay () and Elliott Green

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 120, issue 2, 302-304

Abstract: Previously evidence on the pre-modern relationship between wealth and fertility almost entirely relied upon data from Europe. Using British colonial records from early 19th-century India on widow suicides (satis), we find a robust positive relationship between income and fertility.

Keywords: Fertility; Wealth; Early colonial India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J13 N35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046

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