
@article{ref1,
title="Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: Evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal",
journal="Economics letters",
year="2013",
author="Bandyopadhyay, S. and Green, E.",
volume="120",
number="2",
pages="302-304",
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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1765",
doi="10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046"
}