This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a …

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

activities on secondary school degrees and professional degrees. Even after controlling for important variables and selection …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …