Arbeitspapier
Fertility effects of college education: Evidence from the German educational expansion
We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the effects by the timing of birth reveals a postponement that goes beyond the time in college - indicating a negative earlycareer effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for nonmothers as compared to mothers the timing effects moreover suggest that career and family are not fully compatible.
- ISBN
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978-3-86788-836-3
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 717
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
National Government Expenditures and Education
Analysis of Education
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Thema
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Fertility
family planning
education
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
Westphal, Matthias
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
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Essen
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2017
- DOI
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doi:10.4419/86788836
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
- Westphal, Matthias
- RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Entstanden
- 2017