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| Titre : | Gender empowerment as an enforcer of individuals’ choice between education and fertility: Evidence from 19th century France (2021) |
| Auteurs : | Claude Diebolt ; Tapas Mishra ; Faustine Perrin |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (n° 188, August 2021) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 408-438 |
| Note générale : | Consultation du document en interne uniquement. Voir les documentalistes pour accéder au document. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Affiliation Céreq Céreq - Centre associé de StrasbourgThésaurus CEREQ MODELISATION ; GENRE ; FEMME ; FRANCE ; ETUDE HISTORIQUE ; EDUCATION ; RELATION TRAVAIL-FAMILLE |
| Résumé : | Recent theoretical developments in growth models, triggered particularly by unified theories of growth, suggest that the child quantity-quality trade-off is a defining element in our explanation of a transition from Malthusian stagnation to a sustained growth path. This paper presents a model and derives a testable empirical framework to investigate the role of gender in the trade-off between education and fertility for 86 French counties during the 19th century. Endogeneity-mitigated mean- and median-based regressions offer robust empirical predictions for gender-empowered quantity-quality trade-off. In particular, we find the existence of a significant and negative association between education and fertility. Further, while gauging the differential effects of schooling on fertility, we find that the short-run differences between male and female are small whilst the long-run effects are large. From policy perspective, our results imply that for stable long-run growth it matters not just that parents educate their children, but specifically that they choose to educate girls. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| n° fiche programme : | 108 |
