TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fort, Margherita
AU  - Schneeweis, Nicole
AU  - Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
        TI  - More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
        PY  - 2011/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6015
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6015
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - education
KW  - instrumental variables
KW  - fertility
        ER  -