This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use …

maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by … effects on fertility and maternal employment are driven by women who face relatively higher career costs of children: women in … facing higher career costs of having children. …

Despite a recent growth in studies examining the association between family income and child health, very few studies … effect of family income on child health in the UK. Using rich observational data from a British cohort study, we exploit … exogenous variation in local labour market characteristics to instrument for family income. We estimate the effect of family …