- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. … year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …

The relationship between education and fertility among individuals systematically varies by the education of the … education-fertility nexus and on associations between men's involvement with domestic work and fertility, this study … investigates the role of gendered domestic work divisions for the educational pairing-fertility relationship in couples. Using data …

relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …

factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and …In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites …, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging …

show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …