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Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
In this study we review the literature on the relationship between landownership inequality and the accumulation of human capital in historical perspective. Furthermore we provide new evidence on the relationship between landownership inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and empirical literature on the role of gender specific human capital in the demographic transition.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6072
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Institutions and Growth
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
Education and Economic Development
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
- Subject
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land inequality
education
marriage
Prussian economic history
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Cinnirella, Francesco
Hornung, Erik
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cinnirella, Francesco
- Hornung, Erik
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2016
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