students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

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 …

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …

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 …

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 …

schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

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 …

In this note we revisit the paper by Fonseca et al. (Series 11: 83-103, 2020) who find that education has a positive … effect on health. They use several compulsory schooling reforms as instruments for education. Our objective is to replicate …