Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …