dc.contributor.author | FORT, Margherita | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-10-27T10:48:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-10-27T10:48:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1830-1541 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/7357 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper assesses the causal effects of education on fertility, allowing for
heterogeneity in the effects while controlling for the self-selection of women into
education. Identification relies on exogenous variation in schooling induced by a
mandatory school reform implemented nationwide in Italy in the early 1960s. The
findings suggest that: (i) an increase from primary to junior high school education
causes a large proportion of women to postpone early births; (ii) the effect vanishes at
older ages and women catch up with the fertility delay before turning 26; (iii) the effect
of the increase in education on the number of children a woman has is negligible; (iv)
there is large heterogeneity in the fertility behaviour of women. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI MWP | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2007/22 | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.subject | Education | en |
dc.subject | Motherhood | en |
dc.subject | Regression Discontinuity Design | en |
dc.subject | J1 | en |
dc.subject | I2 | en |
dc.title | Just A Matter of Time: Empirical Evidence of the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility in Italy | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.neeo.contributor | FORT|Margherita|aut| | |
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