-family conflicts. Unemployment increases the likelihood of family formation among women with a moderate or low level of education. This …

fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children …Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …

In many surveys, information on respondents’ education histories is restricted to the level and sometimes the date … they attained their highest degree. We compare estimates of education effects on first birth transitions using imputed … Study. We find that imputed histories produce relatively reliable estimates for most but not all education categories …

The relationship between education and fertility among individuals systematically varies by the education of the … education-fertility nexus and on associations between men's involvement with domestic work and fertility, this study … investigates the role of gendered domestic work divisions for the educational pairing-fertility relationship in couples. Using data …

The relationship between education and fertility among individuals systematically varies by the education of the … education-fertility nexus and on associations between men's involvement with domestic work and fertility, this study … investigates the role of gendered domestic work divisions for the educational pairing-fertility relationship in couples. Using data …

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 …