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 …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

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

schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …

This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … their female offspring and helps to reduce the gender gap in education, as consistent with the evidence. …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …, different measures of mortality, and the sample period. In addition, our causality tests suggest that fertility is both …

whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing fertility has on the labor market outcomes for mothers and on the total … force participation and wages but may have negative effects on overall fertility, especially in the absence of supportive …