The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … increased during the first half of the nineteenth century. -- education ; fertility ; quantity-quality trade-off ; unified …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

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 …

important, policymakers should invest more in education and other welfare programs in order to mitigate the adverse impacts of …

opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …