-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … spousal labor-force participation and earnings as mechanisms in this fertility decline. Spousal education increased however … lacked schools and, as a consequence, significantly increased the education of affected cohorts, mainly of girls. The very …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint …

in the fertility transition, due to the alignment of the education-fertility relationship across generations. As …Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and … composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which conflicting interests … to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high and … complications - but only when the information is delivered to wives rather than husbands is this decline in fertility accompanied by …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …