a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …

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 …

analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional … factors, cohort effect and social/ family background we find that the higher an individual’s education level, the older they … are when they first marry. We find that the effect of education is much stronger for females than for males. …

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 …

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 …

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 …