schooling causes women to have fewer children and delay childbearing, though not to the extent that interpreting cross … the effect of women’s schooling on completed fertility is not mediated through husband’s schooling but rather through age … of schooling on completed fertility, probability of being childless and age at first birth, using the within MZ twins …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …