survival, children''s education, and total fertility of adult women. Using a sequential regression approach, it is investigated … changes in fertility knowledge and preferences. Education of the parents, and especially of the mother, is found to impact in … Mozambique. Four indicators of human capital are examined: height-for-age of children below 5 years of age, children''s rate of …

ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. …In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …

This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …

of parents and children. For both ordinary least square estimates as well as the sensitivity analyses the results do not … of a largescale cohort studyof children living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennium. TheNetherlands …

In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater … education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on …

children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach – Since the number of children … analysis. First, the authors estimate the correlation between the female's education and her number of children, and then the … authors use also partner's education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero …

parents of young children to easily enter and remain in the labor market. Finally, more activating social assistance and in …