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 …

leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school … distribution of ability. Contrary to previous findings in the relevant literature, we find that additional education reduces wage … inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women … year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and first-birth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …

This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … treatment intensity across birth cohorts. The reform led to an increase in education, a delay in marriage, and reduced fertility … beginning at the age of 20. The effect on fertility becomes increasingly negative through age 25. The findings suggest that …

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women … year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

an ideal quasi-experimental setting for analyzing the long-run causal impact of compulsory education keeping other school …