Baby gap: Does more education make for less children?

Matthias Westphal () and Daniel A. Kamhöfer

RWI Impact Notes from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

Abstract: Female college graduates are less likely to bear children but once a mother, they have more children than non-college graduates. - RWI presents first evidence on why college educated women have less children than women who did not go to college. While tertiary education has a direct negative impact on women's probability to become a mother, college educated mothers bear more children than noncollege educated mothers. Career disadvantages might discourage highly educated women from having children. More flexible working hours and means-tested maternal leave benefits could reduce the baby gap.

Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec and nep-gen
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/196550/1/1664870482.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:rwiimp:196550

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in RWI Impact Notes from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().