The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new … dimension. According to these recent findings, not only the level but also the field of education has to be taken into account …. The field of education determines a great deal about labor market options and influences opportunities to combine …

The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new … dimension. According to these recent findings, not only the level but also the field of education has to be taken into account …. The field of education determines a great deal about labor market options and influences opportunities to combine …

This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …

This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …

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

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

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and …