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individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country …
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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 …
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individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country …
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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …
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This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
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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 … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
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the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …
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factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental‐variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …'s education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women's education on fertility is causal …
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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …
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