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partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between education and completed fertility decisions at couple level for … to the literature is to investigate the extent to which the effect of education on fertility may be intensified by the … Community Household Panel (ECHP) dataset. In order to handle the endogeneity issue in fertility decisions, we use the Linear …
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This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using … negative effect of women’s education on the transition rate towards a second child. This phenomenon might be attributed to the … ‘partner’ effect: according to this effect women often live with partners with the same level of education. The empirical …
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In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … an Instrumental Variable Poisson, where grandparents’ education is exerted as an instrument of parents’ education. In … particular, we have considered two stages for each model: in the first stage, we have estimated the impact of female’s education …
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This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using … negative effect of women’s education on the transition rate towards a second child. This phenomenon might be attributed to the … ‘partner’ effect: according to this effect women often live with partners with the same level of education. The empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786962
. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility …This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use … addition, education reduces the probability of first motherhood among women in their early 30s. We attribute these findings to …
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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 …
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Centrebased childcare is seen as a public investment to facilitate maternalemployment. Recent theoretical research proposes that such investmentspotentially lead to substantial gains in child development and thus to high returnsfor society as a whole. However, the empirical evidence is still...
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parental earnings or fathers’ education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers’ subsequent earnings, 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 time …
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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