This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias …

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 …