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 …

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 …

paper reiterates the powerful effects of education, ethnicity and labor market participation on fertility outcomes but it …Recent research by demographers and economists has examined the link between living costs and fertility outcomes. The … literature has provided some evidence that high rents, or high housing costs, discourage fertility. A re-examination of that …

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 …