This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes … convergence in fertility and schooling, changes in labor-force participation, age upon marriage, marriage and divorce rates, and …

disability and grade repetition questions from the school enrollment supplement to the 1992 Current Population Survey to estimate …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … families drawn from a population registry. Our results show no evidence of a quantity-quality trade-off, though some estimates … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade …