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 …

between race/ethnicity, education, and fertility. We use panel data that capture women's labor market and fertility histories … decisions. Our results show an intricate connection between race/ethnicity, education, and fertility as determinants of women …'s life-cycle labor supply. For all levels of education, white women have fewer children, have the first birth later in life …

education are greater for younger than for older women, suggesting that women who give birth as teenagers tend to catch up with … high school education while young but not as they become older. The results on labor market participation show persistent …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms … inequality. These results are highly dependent on assumptions about the behaviour of returns to education, both for the … more education operates through greater incentives for labour force participation among the poor, and through reductions in …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? And what are the transmission … education for the distribution of earnings, they are much more robust for the distribution of household income per capita. Over … half of the poverty reducing effect of more education operate through greater incentives for labour force participation …

education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …