We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …

This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

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 …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental … education and school outcomes. …

penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education in Sweden and reveals that the …