Erschienen in:Quaderni DSE Working Paper ; No. 787
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1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1932089
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 22, 2011 erstellt
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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