Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994
A high educational attainment is shown to have a positive effect on second birth rates for Danish one-child mothers during the period 1981-94. We examine whether a time-squeeze is a possible explanation: due to the longer enrolment in the educational system, highly educated women have less time at t...
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| author | Katrine Strandberg-Larsen Lisbeth B. Knudsen Niels Keiding Mette Gerster |
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| description | A high educational attainment is shown to have a positive effect on second birth rates for Danish one-child mothers during the period 1981-94. We examine whether a time-squeeze is a possible explanation: due to the longer enrolment in the educational system, highly educated women have less time at their disposal in order to get the desired number of children. Also, we examine to what extent the partner's education can explain some of the positive effect. We find no evidence that the positive effect of education is due to either a time-squeeze nor to a partner effect. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41c752490eda447189e6374d36dddc962022-12-22T03:19:43ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712007-11-01178Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994Katrine Strandberg-LarsenLisbeth B. KnudsenNiels KeidingMette GersterA high educational attainment is shown to have a positive effect on second birth rates for Danish one-child mothers during the period 1981-94. We examine whether a time-squeeze is a possible explanation: due to the longer enrolment in the educational system, highly educated women have less time at their disposal in order to get the desired number of children. Also, we examine to what extent the partner's education can explain some of the positive effect. We find no evidence that the positive effect of education is due to either a time-squeeze nor to a partner effect.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/8/birth rateDenmarkeducationfertilitypartner effecttime-squeeze |
| spellingShingle | Katrine Strandberg-Larsen Lisbeth B. Knudsen Niels Keiding Mette Gerster Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994 Demographic Research birth rate Denmark education fertility partner effect time-squeeze |
| title | Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994 |
| title_full | Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994 |
| title_fullStr | Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994 |
| title_short | Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994 |
| title_sort | education and second birth rates in denmark 1981 1994 |
| topic | birth rate Denmark education fertility partner effect time-squeeze |
| url | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/8/ |
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