capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more … remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively … fertility, an association which instead is muted within families. We end by showing that these results can be reconciled in a …

, lower infant mortality, higher urbanization, and higher population density had lower levels of fertility during the 19th and …We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of …

This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma … two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly … the number of children. We analyze the effects of age at school enrolment on fertility in Germany. Our results suggest … younger women. Although, the effects on fertility are small we observe negative life-time earning effects of late enrolment …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for nonmothers as compared to mothers the timing …