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 …, however, evidence that total fertility falls as a result of greater education. …

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 … particularly high opportunity costs of child-rearing in Germany. -- fertility ; education ; childlessness ; timing of births …

. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility … the particularly high opportunity costs of child-rearing in Germany. -- fertility ; education ; timing of births …This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use …

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 …

parental earnings or fathers’ education, or relative to other predictors of child perforƯmance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers’ subsequent earnƯings, 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 …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life - the education of the …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life - the education of the …