estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as … women past college-entry age, to document significant negative effects on the fertility of women as old as 30 at the onset … of the expansion. We also show that the expansion lowered the fertility of women both with and without tertiary education …

supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over …

, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …

, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …

It is well known that highly "female" fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility …-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little. Early … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …

fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate …

This paper studies the effect of women's higher education on fertility outcomes in Ethiopia. We exploit an abrupt … higher education reform, we find that education lowers fertility by 8% and increases the likelihood of never giving birth by … 25%. We explore the role of potential underlying mechanisms and find that this negative effect on fertility is channeled …

estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as … women past college-entry age, to document significant negative effects on the fertility of women as old as 30 at the onset … of the expansion. We also show that the expansion lowered the fertility of women both with and without tertiary education …