Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education … actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more … able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This Paper proposes to answer this question by …

shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …

’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on …