Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: Evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal

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.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra ; Green, Elliott
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 120.2013, 2, p. 302-304
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Fertility \| Wealth \| Early colonial India

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; N35 - Asia including Middle East ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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