Citation

Bandyopadhyay S, Green E. Econ. Lett. 2013; 120(2): 302-304.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046

PMID

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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. © 2013.

Language: en

Keywords

Early colonial India; Fertility; Wealth