earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …

education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on …, however, evidence that total fertility falls as a result of greater education. …

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …