Optimal age at motherhood. Theoretical and empirical considerations on postponement of maternity in Europe

By S. Gustafsson. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research

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Does family policy affect fertility? (2006, background): “9 See, e.g., Gustafsson (2001).”
Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, methodology): “In a detailed econometric analysis, for instance, Gustafsson (2001) demonstrated that women’s career planning was the main explanation for postponement, a ﬁnding replicated in more recent studies in Ireland (O’Donoghue et al ., 2011) and the USA (Miller, 2010).”
“The Motherhood Wage Gap for Women in the United States: The Importance of College and Fertility Delay” (2005, methodology): “Gustafsson (2001) examines the optimal age of motherhood from both theoretical and empirical standpoints.”
Labour force participation and marital fertility of Italian women: The role of education (2003, neutral): “30 See Grogger (1990).”
Uncertainties in Female Employment Careers and the Postponement of Parenthood in Germany (2010, background): “Women’s education, employment, and career orientation have been identified as important parameters for the increase in the age at childbirth (Rindfuss, Morgan and Offutt, 1996; Martin, 2000; Gustafsson, 2001).”
Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2008, neutral): “4 Gustafsson (2001) presents a list of parameters that will have a positive effect on birth postponement: the amount of pre-maternity human capital; the rate of depreciation of human capital due to non-use of human capital; the rate of return to human capital investment; and the length of time…”
The Emergence of Lowest‐Low Fertility in Europe During the 1990s (2002, background): “10 Even in the absence of uncertainty, models of optimal age at childbearing would predict delayed parenthood in response to increased returns to education (Gustafsson 2001; Happel, Hill, and Low 1984).”
The Multifaceted Impact of Education on Entry into Motherhood (2005, background): “An important determinant of the timing of fertility is thus the woman’s life-cycle earnings profile, depending among others on her initial human capital accumulation and the profile of further investments, the rate of return to these investments, and the rate at which her job skills decay ( Gustafss”
The effects of motherhood timing on career path (2011, background): “Happel et al. (1984) finds that women in higher-paying occupations choose longer intervals from first marriage to motherhood, and Caucutt et al.”
Career Planning in Spain: Do Fixed-term Contracts Delay Marriage and Parenthood? (2005, background): “The latter are the costs of children for the mother’s career, which constitute the main point in the literature on the career planning motive for postponing maternity (see Joshi, 1990, 1994, 1998; Dankmeyer, 1996; Gustafsson, Wetzels, Vlasblom, and Dex, 1996; Gustafsson, 2001 ).”
Production, Reproduction, and Education: Women, Children, and Work in a British Perspective (2002, background): “…30 - ranging by 26 percentage points from 84% for the 1946 cohort to 58% for 1970 cohort, shows how once the baby bust was underway it involved a delay in the start of childbearing (also apparent in the cohort study data in Table 1, and also applies in other European countries, Gustafsson, 2001).”
Fertility Decline in Russia in the Early and Mid 1990s: The Role of Economic Uncertainty and Labour Market Crises (2002, background): “The timing of fertility, on the other hand, is likely to constitute a key aspect in low and lowest-low fertility countries (Gustafsson, 2001; Kohler et al., 2001).”
Now or later? The theory of planned behavior and timing of fertility intentions (2011, background): “It has been argued that an important determinant of the timing of fertility is a woman’s life-cycle earnings profile, where postponement is linked to lower cost of later births (Gustafsson, 2001).”