This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman%u2019s mate and have generally …

education on teen fertility for a large sample of women drawn from multiple waves of the Canadian Census. We find that greater … find evidence that education affects the timing of births in a way that strongly implies an “incarceration” effect of … education. In particular, we find large negative impacts of education on births to young women aged seventeen and eighteen, but …

that demonstrates both policies' effects on fertility rates, I find suggestive evidence that individuals' access to …

migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …, low-skilled with high fertility preferences always stay, and only an endogenously determined fraction of high …

In this paper, we use data from the US census to document the history of the relationship between fertility choice and … several new facts that should be useful for researchers trying to model fertility. (1) The reduction in fertility known as the … Demographic Transition (or the Fertility Transition) seems to be much sharper based on cohort fertility measures compared to usual …

When students are tracked into vocational and academic secondary schools, access to higher education is usually … improve access to higher education for disadvantaged groups …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …