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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
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new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and first-birth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …
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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 …
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This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...
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households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …
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's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … are considered: (1) greater congestion in public schools; (2) a lower average tax base for education funding; (3) reduced … wages for low-skilled workers and so more dependence by low-skilled locals on public education; (4) a greater skill premium …
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and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
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schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
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This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … treatment intensity across birth cohorts. The reform led to an increase in education, a delay in marriage, and reduced fertility … postponement of marriage, reduction in the marital education gap, and increased early use of modern contraceptives contribute to …
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At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was roughly halfway through a 60-year demographic transition with declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly correlated diversity in these rates. We demonstrate cross-section correlations with, for instance,...
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