This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have …

;the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation, and;accounts for the potential endogeneity of …;effect on marital fertility at ages 21-39 and that highly educated women postpone;fertility and have a higher labour market … estimate a reduced form purist model;of female marital fertility and labour force participation. It focuses in particular on …

education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i … attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the … inputs are important in shaping these skills, these results align with the notion that education may make women more …

formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long- run outcomes including completed education, income … and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK dis- trict that assigned students …

education are greater for younger than for older women, suggesting that women who give birth as teenagers tend to catch up with … standard deviation explains (i) 9.2% of the increase in high school completion and (ii) 5.4% of the increase in women's labor … high school education while young but not as they become older. The results on labor market participation show persistent …

disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on … the intensive margin (working part-time), while non-college-educated women are relatively more likely to do so in the …

This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they …

This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using … negative effect of women’s education on the transition rate towards a second child. This phenomenon might be attributed to the … ‘partner’ effect: according to this effect women often live with partners with the same level of education. The empirical …

partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …