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LABOUR ECONOMICS
卷 25, 期 -, 页码 35-48出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2013.04.015
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Fertility; Education; Childlessness; Timing of births; Educational reform
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This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary datasets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a postponement of first births away from teenage years and no catch-up later in life. We attribute these findings to the particularly high opportunity costs of childrearing in Germany. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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