women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical …

This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …