Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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Life-Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums, and Internal Rates of Return (2017, unknown): “Other studies that have used this reform include Monstad, Propper, and Salvanes (2008), Aakvik, Salvanes, and Vaage (2010), and Machin, Salvanes, and Pelkonen (2012).”
The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future (2016, unknown): “Monstad et al. (2008) use a similar natural experiment in Norway to show that more schooling leads to a postponement in childbirth, but not in completed fertility.”
The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform (2012, methodology): “…10 grades 1 The existing causal studies for the U.S. and several European countries usually suggests that extended education leads to postponement of first birth away from teenage motherhood, but does not affect completed fertility (see, e.g., Black et al. 2008, Monstad et al. 2008, Silles 2011).”