TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: Evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal
JO  - Economics letters
A1  - Bandyopadhyay, S.
A1  - Green, E.
SP  - 302
EP  - 304
VL  - 120
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-1765
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046
ID  - ref1
ER  -