fertility on the teenage childbearing of their younger sister. To identify the peer effect we utilize an educational reform that … impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …

the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education … actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more … able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This Paper proposes to answer this question by …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life--the education of 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 …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions, which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

This paper provides a new explanation for the narrowing and reversal of the gender education gap. It highlights the … education. We assume that parents maximize the full income of their children and that males have an additional income …, independently of their level of education. This additional income has two effects. First, it biases parental preferences towards …

role of education. Estimating lifetime fertility from micro data sets is generally quite difficult since a large proportion … roles are examined as well. The main result is that education lowers total lifetime fertility, although the strength of this … could be interpreted to mean that higher education per se does not lower people’s fertility expectation while the more …