Arbeitspapier

Fertility effects of college education: Evidence from the German educational expansion

Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children than mothers without a college education. Lower child-income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to mothers without college up to nine years after birth suggest a stronger polarization of college graduate jobs into family-friendly and career-oriented as a potential explanation. We conclude that policies aiming at increasing female educational participation should be counteracted by policies enabling especially college graduates to have both a career and a family.

ISBN
978-3-86304-315-5
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 316

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
Analysis of Education
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
family planning
college education
augmented quantity-quality model

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
Westphal, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
(wo)
Düsseldorf
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
  • Westphal, Matthias
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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