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 …

When assessing the importance of education for fertility, one should ideally use complete education histories … education effect estimates. It is also illustrated that imputation of education for earlier ages may lead to wrong conclusions … incomplete education histories, and try to make use of relevant information from other sources about the actual educational …

, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small. …

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 …

-order birth rates jointly, with a common unobserved factor. The corresponding education-fertility relationships among men, however … we should not take for granted that women’s education generally reduces fertility, and that it does so because of …A variety of approaches have been employed to assess the importance of women’s education for their second- or third …

for the better-educated. So far, no significant influence of aggregate education on fertility has been well documented in … for first and higher-order births were estimated for 1990-94. The average length of education in the district and the … proportion who are literate were found to have no impact on a woman’s birth rate above and beyond that of her own education …

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 …