parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of …

capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more … remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively … fertility, an association which instead is muted within families. We end by showing that these results can be reconciled in a …

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a … job displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these e … that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …

education. Furthermore, the results seem to be consistent with the technology of skill formation. They indicate a concave …

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 …