%0 Report
        %A Fort, Margherita
%A Schneeweis, Nicole
%A Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
        %T More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6015
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6015
        %X 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.
        %K education
%K instrumental variables
%K fertility