between maternal education and fertility desire in China. Our triple-difference strategy exploits the staggered implementation … promotes maternal education but decreases the fertility desire of the affected cohorts. Our instrumental variable estimate … further gauges that one additional year of education would decrease a woman’s fertility desire by 0.28. We present evidence …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … 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 …Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value on leisure and placing less value on family …