Replication data for: Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Daniel Aaronson; Fabian Lange; Bhashkar Mazumder

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Project Citation:

Aaronson, Daniel, Lange, Fabian, and Mazumder, Bhashkar. Replication data for: Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112710V1

Project Description

Summary: By allowing for an extensive margin in the standard quantity-quality model, we generate new insights into fertility transitions. We test the model on Southern black women aected by a large-scale school construction program. Consistent with our model, women facing improved schooling opportunities for their children were more likely to have at least one child but chose to have smaller families overall. By contrast, women who themselves obtained more schooling due to the program delayed childbearing along both the extensive and intensive margins and entered higher quality occupations, consistent with education raising opportunity costs of child rearing.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Demography; Education; Fertility; Development

JEL Classification:
      I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1910 – 1930

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source: US Census data at IPUMS

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual,

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V1 [2019-10-11]

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