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Autor/inn/en | Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf |
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Titel | More schooling, more children. Compulsory schooling reforms and fertility in Europe. |
Quelle | Wien: Inst. für Höhere Studien (IHS) (2011), 40 S.
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Reihe | Reihe Ökonomie. 281 |
Beigaben | grafische Darstellungen; Literaturangaben S. 32-36 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur |
Schlagwörter | Bildungsniveau; Familienplanung; Bildungsreform; Geburtenhäufigkeit; Arbeitspapier; Europa |
Abstract | We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial decrease in childlessness and an increase in the average number of children per woman. Our findings are robust to a number of falsification checks and we can provide complementary empirical evidence on the mechanisms leading to these surprising results. |
Erfasst von | ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel |
Update | 2012/3 |