policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can …. When the externalities on education are very high relatively to the positive externalities on health, the indirect subsidy …

fertility are almost similar; (2) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both single and married; (3 …) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped. We show how family patterns have been shaped by the … rise in education and wage inequality, and by the shrinking gender wage gap. …