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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole E.; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education … childlessness. The results for England point in the opposite direction. Moreover, for the Continent we find that education during …

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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform

Bohlmark, Anders - 2012

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016

We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...

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Après Nous Le Déluge : Fertility and the Intensity of Struggle against Immigration

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2013

present model analyzes this issue in the context of low fertility in the host countries and suggests a novel channel though … which the intensity of the struggle against immigration can be related to fertility. The analysis shows that for childless …

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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, … - 2021

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children - Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2021

causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are …

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The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement : Evidence of Disruption?

Voldby Beuchert, Louise - 2016

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school consolidation and up to four years after. We find that...

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The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida

Schwerdt, Guido - 2013

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end of third grade be retained and provided with remedial services. We exploit a discontinuity in the probability of third grade retention under Florida's test-based promotion policy...

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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2007

expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in …

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