; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

), and for probing into why some children continue to be out of school. Measurement issues and policy implications are also …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …