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 …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between education and completed fertility decisions at couple level for … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) method, where female’s education is instrumented by her partner’s education. The contribution … to the literature is to investigate the extent to which the effect of education on fertility may be intensified by the …

In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … an Instrumental Variable Poisson, where grandparents’ education is exerted as an instrument of parents’ education. In … particular, we have considered two stages for each model: in the first stage, we have estimated the impact of female’s education …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life – the education of the …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life--the education of the …

This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use …. 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 …