households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …

We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We … education work more before the birth of the first child, but children have larger negative effects on their level of labor … market involvement. Differences across education levels are more pronounced with respect to full time employment than with …

's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … are considered: (1) greater congestion in public schools; (2) a lower average tax base for education funding; (3) reduced … wages for low-skilled workers and so more dependence by low-skilled locals on public education; (4) a greater skill premium …

This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use …. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility … addition, education reduces the probability of first motherhood among women in their early 30s. We attribute these findings to …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the relationship between education and completed fertility in low … first births, which also contributes to lower subsequent fertility. However, the negative effect of education on higher …, and there has been an increasingly stimulating effect of education on second- and third-birth rates. We discuss these sex …