This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using … negative effect of women’s education on the transition rate towards a second child. This phenomenon might be attributed to the … ‘partner’ effect: according to this effect women often live with partners with the same level of education. The empirical …

fertility on the teenage childbearing of their younger sister. To identify the peer effect we utilize an educational reform that … impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …

' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …

the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …

as well. This is manifested as low intergenerational mobility in terms of both education and occupation in developing …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education … actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more … able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This Paper proposes to answer this question by …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life--the education of the …