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 …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can …. When the externalities on education are very high relatively to the positive externalities on health, the indirect subsidy …

fertility are almost similar; (2) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both single and married; (3 …) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped. We show how family patterns have been shaped by the … rise in education and wage inequality, and by the shrinking gender wage gap. …

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …