ONLINE APPENDIX Fertility and the Price of Children: Evidence from Slavery and Slave Emancipation IMPACT OF ENDOGENOUS SLAVE FERTILITY The fertility of household slaves was not entirely outside the control of the slaveowner
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IMPACT OF ENDOGENOUS SLAVE FERTILITY The fertility of household slaves was not entirely outside the control of the slaveowner. Slaveowners influenced slave fertility using a variety of methods, and it is therefore inappropriate to view slave fertility as an entirely exogenous event. A valid instrument for slave fertility is not readily apparent. Under the assumption that slave fertility is correlated with the error term in Equation 1A in the main text, the plim of γγkk �is given by:
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