The Effect of Education on Overall Fertility

Philip DeCicca and Harry Krashinsky
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No 23003, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Fertility rates have long been falling in many developed countries while educational attainment in these countries has risen. We attempt to reconcile these two trends with a novel application of a recent model to generate plausibly causal effects of education on these decreases in fertility. Specifically, we find that education “compresses” the fertility distribution – women are more likely to have at least one child, but less likely to have multiple children. We demonstrate that the mechanism for this effect is through the positive impact of education on earnings and marriage.

JEL-codes: I1 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
Note: EH
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Published as Philip DeCicca & Harry Krashinsky, 2023. "The effect of education on overall fertility," Journal of Population Economics, vol 36(1), pages 471-503.

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