In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to … the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and … education serves as an indicator of a woman’s potential reproductive behavior better than the mere level. We discover that in …

educated for teaching jobs or for health occupations typically have lower childlessness than other lines of education. However …

ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The …

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

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 …

of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the … paper is to better understand the persistence of these differences by studying the fertility behaviour of migrants from the …

-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the effects of unemployment on fertility vary by socio …, our results show that there are strong educational gradients in the unemployment and fertility nexus, and that the … relationship between unemployment and fertility varies by socioeconomic group. Fertility tends to be lower during periods of …

This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …, the predictive strength of fertility intentions is of interest. On the other hand, the most important determinants that … inhibit or enable the realization of fertility intentions are analyzed. Data from the first three waves of the German Family …