, 1991–2005. Power couples are identified using their levels and fields of education, and their sectors of employment …

Between 2001 and 2008 Australia’s total fertility increased from 1.73 to 1.96. This period also saw changes to family …. This paper analyses individual-level fertility, using data from a large-scale longitudinal survey and focusing on the …. The effects of education, income, occupation, marital status, age and parity are significant. …

partner, and parental relationships with existing children, and subsequent fertility. The data are from 2,948 women and 2 … positive relationship between prior satisfaction with life and fertility two years later is found. Men’s satisfaction with … their partner and with their partner’s relationship with existing children are positively related to fertility. Fertility …

Several studies of the effect of education on second or third birth rates (e.g. Hoem et al. (2001)) have used the …

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 …

' education from about the secondary level onwards was found to be the only consistently significant covariate. No effect of … community aggregate education was discernible, after controlling for urbanity and other individual-level variables. The results … reinforce previous findings that improving girls' education is a key instrument for raising ages at first birth, but suggest …

College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to … the upper 20s and 30s. Whereas a high fertility among the better-educated perhaps could be explained by socioeconomic or … educational differentials in completed fertility that are quite small and to a large extent stem from a higher proportion of …

In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the … conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational … high number of educational field-and-level combinations (some sixty in all). It turns out that the field of education …

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 …