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
978-3-86788-836-3
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 717

Klassifikation
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
Fertility
family planning
education

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
Westphal, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2017

DOI
doi:10.4419/86788836
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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

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