The effects of school quality on fertility in a transition economy
Journal: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Year: 2011

This paper investigates the effects of school quality on fertility in a transition country. It aims to\nexplain the slowing fertility and shrinking rural sector of a post Soviet country, Ukraine, through\nthe decline in the quality of public services, in particular, school quality. It builds on earlier work\nof Rosenzweig (1982), which tests for the effects of a change in the price of child quality, measured here by school quality. Estimates from a generalized Poisson model of fertility show tha