and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively …Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more …

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …

of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced … formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation …

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … Austria. Women giving birth on different weekdays are pre-treatment observationally identical. Our instrumental variable … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in …

fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in their relevant age-occupationgroup on-the-job are more likely to …

pregnancies, driven by the group of mothers between 20 and 34 years old with secondary education. This increased the average …

This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play … impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in the education level of the woman. The penalty for a woman with a high …