We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

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 … 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 district that assigned students to …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two … exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

This paper etimates the causal effects of family size on girls’ education in Mexico, exploiting prenatal son preference … finds no evidence of family size having an adverse effect on education. The paper then weakens the identification assumption …