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Education and fertility : evidence from a natural experiment

Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Propper, Carol; Monstad, Karin
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2008-04
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Abstract
In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been

attributed to greater education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as

both fertility and education have changed secularly. The contribution of this paper is to study

the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on

whether the relationship is causal. We study fertility in Norway and use an educational reform

as an instrument to correct for selection into education. Our results indicate that increasing

education leads to postponement of first births away from teenage motherhood towards

having the first birth in their twenties and, for a smaller group, up to the age of 35-40. We do

not find, however, evidence that total fertility falls as a result of greater education.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2008:6

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