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 …

’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the … in response to a change in the parental-leave policy that inadvertently favoured women who had their second or subsequent … as a consequence of women's increasing independence of their husbands at the stage in life that we study. Furthermore, it …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U …-shaped. At the same time, average hours worked increase monotonically with women's education. This pattern is true for all women … model to shed light on differences between the U.S. and Western Europe in fertility and women's time allocated to labor …

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and …