This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition to the second child using data from the 1997 … German micro-census. We begin our analysis with a simple model, which shows a positive effect of woman’s education on the … hypothesis, we argue that the positive effect of women’s education can be attributed to a selection effect, i.e. family …

The effect of education on the transition to second births is examined using three waves of the Hungarian GGS data. We … hypothesize that higher education increases the hazard of second conception and this effect is due to the presence of highly … educated partner. Parity-specific survival models are estimated using women born between 1946 and 1983. Higher education …

of childbearing. The purpose of the present paper is to display selected features of fertility in consensual and marital … this end we use underlying fertility rates specified by union duration and utilize a metric based on an aggregation of such …, and their aggregate fertility in cohabitational unions in subsequent years is largely of the same size order as in marital …

We contribute to understanding the relationship of education to fertility by disentangling educational fertility … that can handle under-dispersion. Results show that education has a strong, direct, consistent association with fertility …, net of industry and occupation, and that fertility differences across countries primarily reflect compositional and …