the system into one of joint taxation with the highest marginal rates on low and average wage two-earner families. Under …

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 … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …’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 …

. According to optimal taxation theory, public debts should be reduced before the baby-boom generation retires. I find that if …

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people’s involvement in a variety of social and health risks …. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link …