Lavy, Victor; Zablotsky, Alexander - In: Journal of Public Economics 124 (2015) C, pp. 105-121
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a mostly Muslim population with very low female … labor force participation. We first show that a removal of travel restrictions on Israeli Arabs had raised female education … and had almost no effect on male education. Next, we show that it lowered fertility rates among exposed women, which we …