The Effect of Skill Level on the Timing of Childbearing and Number of Children

Peter Alders

No 98-127/3, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number of children. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively less utility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation of human capital by learning-by-doing and thereby on career perspectives. A decline in fertility is explained without a quantity-quality shift.

Keywords: heterogeneity in skill level; number of children; timing childbearing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 1998-12-16
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