groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education … least important for most socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, education and wealth are health protecting but have …

mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …

. We find that subsidies to the costs of children expand the set of equilibria, making social security viable where it …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …

in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

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 …