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 …

education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly …

new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …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 …

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent …) parents, and may also, under some reference fertility levels, involve positive childlessness allowances. Our results are … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not …

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the … staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects …. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced religiosity of …

While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality … educational reforms that increased minimum education requirements as a source of exogenous variation in education levels …