"Will highly educated women have more children in the future?" In this contribution,
I address this question by looking at both fertility and fertility intentions; i.e., the
number of children people plan to have over their reproductive lives. Intended births are highly correlated with actual births, and in low-fertility settings, childbearing has become associated with the couple's agency.
On the other hand, education, which is a marker of income and social status, has remained an important driver of fertility choices. Hence, understanding the reproductive decision-making of women and men with low, medium, and high levels of education is crucial when seeking to determine whether - and if so, to what extent - there is scope for additional policy interventions aimed at raising fertility levels.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:6314 |
| Date | 30 December 2017 |
| Creators | Testa, Maria Rita |
| Publisher | Verlag der Ă–sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Relation | http://www.austriaca.at/8152-1inhalt?frames=yes, https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576_0x00388734.pdf, http://epub.wu.ac.at/6314/ |
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