examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on …, however, evidence that total fertility falls as a result of greater education. …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …

her with respect to medical treatment, including the Pill. By the mid-1970s, the minimum marriage age had been lowered to … made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women’s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined … with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …