Many countries have implemented childcare subsidies in an effort to help families; in the United States, the government created the Child Care and Development Fund in 1996, which provides public funds for childcare assistance to low-income families. Despite the importance of the issue, little is...

Using Norwegian data we find that married women’s education is positively associated with completed fertility, but this relationship becomes insignificant after controlling for husbands’ characteristics. Husbands’ education has a positive effect on women’s fertility. These findings...

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of offering educational opportunities as a strategy to recruit health workers to rural areas. Tanzania, like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, has a very small and unequally distributed health workforce. It has been suggested that rural...