Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

At the national level, it has long been observed that a country's average education level is negatively associated with … its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … children and the average education level (the quantity-quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …

household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis …, increased female secondary education, and the expansion of health insurance coverage. Urbanization appears to have a limited, if …