partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …

In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … an Instrumental Variable Poisson, where grandparents’ education is exerted as an instrument of parents’ education. In … particular, we have considered two stages for each model: in the first stage, we have estimated the impact of female’s education …

Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …

barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility. …

constitutes indeed for some females a barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility. …

observations it is found that women as head of household, women’s education, and ownership of assets by woman have positive effect …Abstract: The paper analyzed the contribution of informally employed women (for the age group of 16-60 years) in their … household budget. The urban informal sector absorbs the women workers largely. What are the determinants of their contribution …

This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the timing of marriage and early fertility using the 2003 Turkish … compulsory schooling –, the proportion of women who are married drops from 15.2 to 10 percent and the proportion of women who … schooling on marriage and early fertility persists beyond the completion of compulsory schooling for an important duration. In …

the return to education would trigger a virtuous cycle of fertility control, investment in education, poverty alleviation … policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …