This paper etimates the causal effects of family size on girls’ education in Mexico, exploiting prenatal son preference … finds no evidence of family size having an adverse effect on education. The paper then weakens the identification assumption …

This paper uses the exogenous variation in fertility introduced by China’s family planning policies to identify the …

fertility process. The results indicate that high education parents’ fertility responds negatively to changes in the expected …This study examines households’ fertility variations in response to expected permanent shifts in the return to … education. Wage premiums measure␣the return to education because their long-run movements are driven by factors exogenous to the …

Using the 1995–2011 March Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education … positively affected by the immigrant generation’s levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of … of the education of men from the father’s source country larger than that of women from the mother’s source country. We …

the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation, and accounts for the potential … estimate a reduced form purist model of female marital fertility and labour force participation. It focuses in particular on … endogeneity of education. Our estimates show that increasing education up to the upper secondary level exerts ceteris paribus a …

. This increase of age at first birth is the main explanatory variable for the rapid decrease in fertility in European … the development of the period fertility rate it is therefore crucial to understand the determinants of optimal age at …