. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility …This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use … addition, education reduces the probability of first motherhood among women in their early 30s. We attribute these findings to …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two …

. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility …This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use … addition, education reduces the probability of first motherhood among women in their early 30s. We attribute these findings to …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two …

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …