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 ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and thereby on career perspectives. A decline infertility 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 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-12-16
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