More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

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...

Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe.

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies report causal effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality ranging anywhere from zero to large and negative. Using data from 18 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we quantify the average mortality gain and explore its disp...

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of schooling was increased from eight to...

Assaying U.S. Schooling: More Money or More Performance

U.S. schools are failing the nation and the nation’s economy. It may be that a greater level of expenditure can be justified and urged upon the nation based on an analysis of schooling effects on economic growth. Alternatively, the nation should aim to provide the highest quality of schooling at the level of expenditure preferred by the taxpayer. The application of a choice model for social exp...