Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …'s education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women's education on fertility is causal. …