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's mate and have generally small …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Americans and women with lower education. Given that being born to unprepared parents significantly affects children's outcomes … unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …

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