Changing Relationships between Education and Fertility: A Study of Women and Men Born 1940 to 1964

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Fertility trends by social status (2008, background): “Education can affect preferences for fertility timing and outcomes, raise female autonomy, increase contraceptive use and raise the opportunity costs of childbearing (Jejeebhoy 1995, Kravdal and Rindfuss 2007, Skirbekk, Kohler and Prskawetz 2004).”
Family policy and fertility: fathers’ and mothers’ use of parental leave and continued childbearing in Norway and Sweden (2010, background): “tional groups in the timing of childbearing across the life course (Kravdal and Rindfuss, 2008; Andersson et al., 2009).”
Projection of Populations by Level of Educational Attainment, Age and Sex for 120 Countries for 2005-2050 (2010, background): “Kravdal and Rindfuss (2007) and Bloemen and Kalwij (2001) attempt to use detailed data and simultaneous modeling to disentangle the impact of schooling from other factors on childbearing patterns.”
Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, result): “A recent study of Norwegian men and women by Kravdal and Rindfuss (2008) supported previous ﬁndings that better-educated women have later ﬁrst births.”
THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF LOW FERTILITY (2009, background): “Higher education is associated with later marriage and childbearing, partly because of longer enrollment and the expectations that come with rising educational attainment (Kravdal & Rindfuss 2008; Raymo 2003).”