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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education … childlessness. The results for England point in the opposite direction. Moreover, for the Continent we find that education during …
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Childlessness, a driving force of fertility, has undergone strong variations in 20th-century Europe, and educational … based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … decreased: the differences between women of medium/high education and low educated women diminished. However, the childlessness …
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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 …
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This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. …
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recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …
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The living situation of the elderly population in Europe is gaining importance due to demographic change. In many European countries, women receive substantially lower pensions than men; gender pension gaps among pensioners can be up to 69 percent. When taking elderly people without a pension...
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Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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