Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …

.3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the … 0.216 compared to 0.6 in the simulation model) which suggests substantial returns to college education in terms of …

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

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 …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … significant birth order and family size effects in individuals' years of education thereby confirming the presence of a quantity …

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 …