Time Squeeze, Partner Effect or Self-Selection?: An Investigation into the Positive Effect of Women’s Education on Second Birth Risks in West Germany
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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 transition r
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In Western, Northern, and Southern European countries, second and third birth hazards have been found to be higher for highly educated people.
“In Western, Northern, and Southern European countries, second and third birth hazards have been found to be higher for highly educated people (Kreyenfeld 2002;Bratti 2003;Andersson, Hoem, and Duvander 2006;Köppen 2006;Kravdal and Rindfuss 2008;Caltabiano, Castiglioni, and Rosina 2009;Muresan and Hoem 2010;Neels and De Wachter 2010;Rønsen and Skrede 2010).”
From The educational gradient of childlessness and cohort parity progression in 14 low fertility countries (2014) · cites this paper as Kreyenfeld 2002
Several studies have drawn attention to the potential impact of unobserved characteristics on the association between education and parity progression to higher-order births, but only a few studies have attempted to control for such selectivity.
“Whereas several studies have drawn attention to the potential impact of unobserved characteristics on the association between education and parity progression to higher-order births, only a few studies have attempted to control for such selectivity (Kravdal 2001;Kreyenfeld 2002;Kravdal 2007;Jenkins 2011).”
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- Authors
- Kreyenfeld, M.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Kreyenfeld, Michaela
- ORCID
- Kreyenfeld, Michaela
- Venue
- Demographic Research
- Published
- 2002-07-04
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 15-48
- ISSN
- 1435-9871 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2033755891
- Cited by
- 195
- References
- 36
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- FWCI
- 18.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Demographic Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Keywords
- women's education, second child, fertility transition, partner effects, self-selection, reproductive decision-making
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