. 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 …

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 …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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 …

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 …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

that increase educational attainment reduce early fertility? This paper investigates whether increasing mandatory … legislation aimed at improving educational outcomes may have spillover effects onto the fertility decisions of teenagers. …

' education or with other indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …