the assumption that higher education per se must result in higher childlessness. In our opinion, several factors intrinsic … is hooked up to the labor market) may influence the relationship between education and childlessness, and we would not …In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to …

educated for teaching jobs or for health occupations typically have lower childlessness than other lines of education. However … childlessness in Sweden (Hoem et al., 2006) to cover Austria, and we make comparisons between the two countries. In both … same pattern of childlessness by educational field in both countries; in particular at each educational level women …

first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is … ultimate fertility, and educational groups with much childlessness have relatively low ultimate fertility. In particular, women …

and their further fertility? We believe that a comparison of third-birth behavior between Norway and West Germany is of …

The Czech Republic presently shows one of the lowest total fertility rates (TFR) in Europe. A decline in period … fertility followed the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy that started in 1990. In this study, we … investigate women’s transition to first births, focusing on the impact of female education. We make a distinction between the …

changes in the level of childlessness are very pronounced. Austria has very low fertility, too; between the world wars it even …In this paper we study the changes of reproduction concentration among women, the levels of childlessness, individual … factors influencing childlessness, and the contribution of childlessness to the concentration of reproduction in Austria for …

relevance of personality traits, coping-styles, and other psychological variables for the prediction of fertility in this …

fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in …During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation … between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show …

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing … fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the mechanisms underlying this reversal by analyzing data from 1975 to 2008 …