@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6015,
            	author={Fort, Margherita and Schneeweis, Nicole and Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf},
            	title={More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe},
            	year={2011},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6015},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6015},
	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.},
	keywords={education;instrumental variables;fertility},
            }