Declining maternal fertility desire has been recognized as a key factor in understanding China’s sharp drop in realized … fertility. Using results from a nationally representative survey, this paper presents the first causal evidence on the relation … between maternal education and fertility desire in China. Our triple-difference strategy exploits the staggered implementation …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women’s education on fertility in rural China by difference … educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value on leisure and placing less value on family …