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

marriage rates, fertility and educational attainment of women who were affected by the change in law. After the passage of the … law, marriage rates declined sharply, and as a result, fertility declined and educational attainment increased. The … marriage can have significant implications for reducing fertility and increasing educational attainment of women …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico. It exploits son preference as … instrumental variables. Overall, it finds no evidence of family size having an adverse effect on education, once the endogeneity of …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …