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Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly correlated with the skill level of women. The age at school enrolment and therefore the age at graduation depends on the month of birth. Children born before the cut-off date start...
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
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Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764714
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 …
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892129
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 … partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …
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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 …
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In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … an Instrumental Variable Poisson, where grandparents’ education is exerted as an instrument of parents’ education. In … particular, we have considered two stages for each model: in the first stage, we have estimated the impact of female’s education …
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