fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more … liberal areas were much less likely to experience a birth or marriage as a minor, invested more in education, and ended up in …

application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed … fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of … births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …