This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using … negative effect of women’s education on the transition rate towards a second child. This phenomenon might be attributed to the … ‘partner’ effect: according to this effect women often live with partners with the same level of education. The empirical …

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 …

. 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …