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 …

the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …

multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … decreases their children's human capital levels. I demonstrate that the poor, who cannot opt out, incur greater costs than the …

instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905 …

alone entails a higher fertility rate and a lower ratio of high- to low-ability children, as compared to using education …This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as … earners and low earners with the proportion of types being determined endogenously. The number of children is …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as … predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …