After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … 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 …

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 …

, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …

households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …

'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 …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

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 …

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 … beginning at the age of 20. The effect on fertility becomes increasingly negative through age 25. The findings suggest that …

female labour market participation, which is in turn related to fertility reduction. Lastly we find that more rapid urban … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality. …