authors use also partner's education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero … her fertility rate in the Italian case. In those frameworks, the education variable is usually considered as a control … children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach – Since the number of children …

the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation, and accounts for the potential … positive effect on marital fertility at ages 21–39 and that highly educated women postpone fertility and have a higher labour … estimate a reduced form purist model of female marital fertility and labour force participation. It focuses in particular on …

;the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation, and;accounts for the potential endogeneity of …;effect on marital fertility at ages 21-39 and that highly educated women postpone;fertility and have a higher labour market … estimate a reduced form purist model;of female marital fertility and labour force participation. It focuses in particular on …

In this paper we explore the mechanisms causing the negative association between females' education and fertility in …

/1992 TDHS. When various sources of spuriousness are taken into account, education is found to reduce fertility much less than … suggested by univariate tabulations of total fertility rate. …