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 …

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 …

fertility behaviour. Childlessness is a particularly widespread phenomenon among female university graduates in Western Germany …’s young adults is expected to be around 40 per cent in OECD countries. Education-specific studies reveal differences in … Generations and Gender Survey (GSS), we study fertility intentions of university graduates. We concentrate on university degree …

fertility is close to that of married mothers; (2) why childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both … from the 1990 US Census. The quantitative model allows us to measure voluntary and involuntary childlessness from the data … single and married women; and (3) why there is a hump-shaped relationship between marriage rates and education levels. We …

fertility are almost similar; (2) childlessness exhibits a U- shaped relationship with education for both single and married; (3 …We develop a theory of marriage and fertility, distinguishing the choice to have children from the choice of the number … involuntary childlessness, and explain why (1) single women are more often childless than married women but, when mothers, their …

assumption that higher education per se must result in higher childlessness. In our opinion, several factors intrinsic and … up to the labor market) may influence the relationship between education and childlessness, and we would not expect a …In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the …

children. Moreover I have found that this effect diminishes as education increases. The transmission of fertility norms …In this article, I examine the large Black / White fertility gap in the US. I question the "compositional argument … for education, other characteristics such as income, employment and marital status do not help to close the gap. I …

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper examining the relationship between rural migration and urbanization and fertility in … India - based on two household surveys, examines socio-economic and demographic aspects influencing fertility and population … growth such as income, education, woman worker labour force participation, land ownership, family status, caste, mortality …

also stay longer in post-primary school. According to the average returns of education in Indonesia, I conclude that family …