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

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; and Green, Elliott D.

(2013) Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal. Economics Letters, 120 (2). pp. 302-304. ISSN 0165-1765

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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.

Item Type	Article
Keywords	early colonial India,fertility,wealth
Departments	International Development Economics STICERD
DOI	10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.046
Date Deposited	18 Jun 2013 16:06
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/50779

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