This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on men's fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education … policy may extend beyond those usually claimed. -- Schooling reform ; teenage childbearing ; fertility …

instrument" is supported by a host of validity tests. This strategy also enables us to predict mothers' abilities. Our results …

intermediate outcomes such as mothers’ subsequent earnƯings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …-educated mothers, a result that is robust to a number of different specifications. We find no corresponding heterogeneity relative to …’ mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers’ education and the amount of …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

panel data for Sweden we show that female individual fertility increases if a co-worker recently had a child. The timing of …We examine the influence that co-workers' have on each other's fertility decisions. Using linked employer employee …. Consistent with models of social learning we find that the peer effect for first time mothers is similar irrespective of the …

system in Sweden. This rule made it possible for a woman to retain her previous high level of parental leave benefits, i … births did not exceed 24 months. The rule had a much larger effect on the birth spacing behavior for native-born mothers … compared to foreign-born mothers due to their differential attachment to the labor market. We find that the rule caused a …

Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high …

increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity … reform yields most of the intended effects: The fraction of mothers who responded that they were going to return to the labor … market within a year since the interview increased by 14 percentage points. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child …