Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …

In this paper we examine the effect of family structure on children's educational outcomes by exploiting the sibling … outcomes for children within the same family - stepchildren with their half-siblings in the same blended family who are the … biological children of both parents. Using panel data methods to control for unobserved heterogeneity across families, we find …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to … impact that the transfer had on the language and mathematical competencies of the children of eligible mothers at the end of …

In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select …. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent. Since the number of children … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between education and completed fertility decisions at couple level for … Community Household Panel (ECHP) dataset. In order to handle the endogeneity issue in fertility decisions, we use the Linear … to the literature is to investigate the extent to which the effect of education on fertility may be intensified by the …

In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent (and to his partner). Since the number of … children ever born (CEB) is a count variable, we have implemented three empirical models: Poisson, Zero-Truncated Poisson and …