We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education … childlessness. The results for England point in the opposite direction. Moreover, for the Continent we find that education during …

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 … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

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 …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …'s education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women's education on fertility is causal. …

individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country …

causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are …