We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

particular, they find no impact of life expectancy increases on education. We argue that their pessimistic results with respect … the impact of life expectancy improvements on the average education of the whole population aged above 15, which evolves … much slower. We have reproduced their estimations with a cohort-based measure of education and find a positive and …

insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

propensity to turn one additional year of life expectancy into higher education is lower in poor countries than in the rich. The …