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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced …

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 …