propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of …-level dataset that links 2011 census data to life event records for the population living in England and Wales, we find that better … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also …

estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as … women past college-entry age, to document significant negative effects on the fertility of women as old as 30 at the onset … of the expansion. We also show that the expansion lowered the fertility of women both with and without tertiary education …

school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data … fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …