This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to …

smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we suppose a higher return to education for smokers who go further on … education. With our empirical fondings we can confirm the presumptions. We use interactions-terms to regress the average rate of … education than non-smokers. …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …