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 …

This paper compares the non-marital birth pattern in France and West Germany. Since the beginning of the eighties …, France witnessed a steady increase in non-marital birth rates, while in West Germany non-marital birth rates have remained at … Rhine which hamper or foster childbearing in cohabiting unions. Using data from the French and German Family and Fertility …

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 …

, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia in West Germany. A hazard-regression analysis is applied to data of the German Socio … first birth. We do not find evidence of a fertility-disruption effect after immigration. The analysis indicates that second …-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers’ generation is. …

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 paper in details, and thereby also a rationale for a positive impact of increased gender equality on fertility. As the … dual-earner family is here to stay, and given the well-known negative consequences of long-term very low fertility for a …

a very short contract deters the most educated. Second, I use the 2006 Spanish Fertility Survey to show how education …

and their further fertility? We believe that a comparison of third-birth behavior between Norway and West Germany is of …The aim of this paper is to provide insights into third-birth dynamics in West Germany and Norway. Since the third … Germany, and how can they be explained? Which factors have a similar influence on Norwegian and West German two-child mothers …