reform of the Welfare State are outlined. …

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 …

performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …

's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 25 percent random sample from Sweden … differences-in-differences design to account for the non-random implementation of the reform across municipalities, and finds that … exposure to the reform increased average educational attainment by 0.28 years for males and 0.16 years for females. Our 2SLS …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility …, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We … wages from the end of statutory schooling. We use the model to evaluate the life-cycle return to apprenticeship training and …

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …