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 …

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

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on …

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 …

This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they …

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 … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

, childlessness, and completed fertility. While the postponement trend, which began with the cohorts born in the 1940s, has continued …We examine the link between the postponement of parenthood and fertility outcomes among highly educated women in the … USA born in 1920–1986, using data from the CPS June Supplement 1979–2016. We argue that the postponement–low fertility …

, as are black-white fertility differentials. However, little is known on how first birth postponement and childlessness … differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with …A postponement of first births among college graduates, and increases in childlessness in the US are well documented …

patterns with regard to the completed fertility-intentions gap, most apparent for the childlessness gap. In addition, the gap …We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States … data on completed or almost completed fertility in the same cohorts later in life when they were aged 40 and older. In …