Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal
Bandyopadhyay, S. & Green, E. D.
(2013).
Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal.
Economics Letters,
120(2), 302-304.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046
(2013).
Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal.
Economics Letters,
120(2), 302-304.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046
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.