| Title: |
Behind the fertility–education nexus: what triggered the French development process? |
| Authors: |
Diebolt, Claude; Menard, Audrey-Rose; Perrin, Faustine |
| Contributors: |
Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique (LEMNA); Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes (IEMN-IAE Nantes); Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN); Skane University Hospital Lund |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1361-4916. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES |
| Subject Terms: |
Fertility; Economic growth; Family; France; Education; JEL: I - Health; and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I25 - Education and Economic Development; JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth; JEL: N - Economic History/N.N3 - Labor and Consumers; Demography; Health; Welfare; Income; Wealth; Religion; and Philanthropy/N.N3.N33 - Europe: Pre-1913; JEL: O - Economic Development; Innovation; Technological Change; and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O10 - General; [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance; [SHS.DEMO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Demography; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History |
| Time: |
Nineteenth century |
| Description: |
International audience ; 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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
WOS: 000418926200001 |
| DOI: |
10.1093/ereh/hex008 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-04149095; https://hal.science/hal-04149095v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-04149095v1/file/AFC_WP_03_2016.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex008 |
| Rights: |
https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.48754B87 |
| Database: |
BASE |