This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the … school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …-varying confounders, I find that these Daughters of the Wall were more likely to have children in young adulthood if they did not grow up …