We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …. -- instrumental variables ; education ; fertility …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

by documenting how protectionism reversed the long-term improvements in education and the fertility transition that were … in primary education and increased birthrates and fertility. The magnitude of these effects was substantial. In regions …

This paper studies the effect of women's higher education on fertility outcomes in Ethiopia. We exploit an abrupt … higher education reform, we find that education lowers fertility by 8% and increases the likelihood of never giving birth by … 25%. We explore the role of potential underlying mechanisms and find that this negative effect on fertility is channeled …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …