This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … reduced fertility. These results are consistent with women having greater control over their fertility decision …

.) The results show that the reform had a significant impact on middle school completion for both men and women, with … stronger effects on women. An increase in education, generated by exposure to the law, decreases women's propensity to identify … themselves as religious. Education also lowers women's tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, religious turban or …

While less-educated women are more likely to give birth as teenagers, there is scant evidence the relationship is … education on teen fertility for a large sample of women drawn from multiple waves of the Canadian Census. We find that greater … education. In particular, we find large negative impacts of education on births to young women aged seventeen and eighteen, but …

. Women old enough to have completed secondary school delay both marriage and childbearing …

secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women … men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …