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

This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they …

remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively …Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical …

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …

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 …

remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively …Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more …

While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …

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

This article studies the impact of education and fertility in structural transformation and growth. In the model there … dimensions, it may or may not allow child labor and it subsidizes education expenditures. The model is calibrated to South Korea … important in explaining its stagnation (growth) after 1980. We also analyze how different government policies towards education …