We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing …’ to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the … normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after the establishment were more likely to finish compulsory schooling …

the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two … opposing effects might influence these estimates. Online teaching would lower economic costs while learning losses in tertiary …

This paper studies whether specialized academic fields of study in secondary school, which are common in many countries … of study, but also an accounting of individuals' next-best alternatives. Our setting is Sweden, where at the end of ninth …-best choice, together with nationwide register data for school cohorts from 1977-1991 linked to their earnings as adults. Our …