This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … restricted the mobility of Arabs in Israel until the mid-1960's. This change improved access to schooling in communities that … lacked schools and, as a consequence, significantly increased the education of affected cohorts, mainly of girls. The very …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … restricted the mobility of Arabs in Israel until the mid-1960's. This change improved access to schooling in communities that … lacked schools and, as a consequence, significantly increased the education of affected cohorts, mainly of girls. The very …

leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference … parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test … extended parental leave mandate on standardized test scores at age 15, but that the subgroup of boys of highly educated mothers …