The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

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 …

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 …

fertility. The model is a three-period CGE framework where the design of the education system and effects on factor prices are … optimal if the education system has a fixed benefit rate. This design of education and pension systems assures that … individuals in the small open economy are unaffected by fertility fluctuations. …

endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … 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 …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …