Effects of education on second births before and after societal transition: Evidence from the Estonian GGS

Klesment, Martin; Puur, Allan

doi:10.4054/demres.2010.22.28

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“…This finding is consistent with those reported in Gerster et al (2007) and Klesment and Puur (2010). While our study supports the classic income effect hypothesis, it does not support Kreyenfeld's (2002) partner effect hypothesis that the relationship between female education and the transition to the second birth is spurious and is due to educational homogamy and the effect of male education.…”

Section: The Partner Effect Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 83%

“…In recent years, several studies have reported a positive relationship between education and the transition to second birth (Kreyenfeld 2002;Gerster et al 2007;Kravdal 2001Kravdal , 2007Klesment and Puur 2010;Billingsley 2011). This finding seems to contradict the economic theory of fertility since the shadow price of raising (high-quality) children as well as the foregone earnings from career interruptions should be higher for educated women (Becker and Lewis 1973;Mincer and Polachek 1974;Happel, Hill, and Low 1984;Montgomery and Trussel 1986;Taniguchi 1999;Jones, Schoonbroodt, and Tertilt 2008).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…In recent years, several studies have examined the relationship between education and the transition to second births (Kreyenfeld 2002;Gerster et al 2007;Kravdal 2001;Klesment and Puur 2010;Mureşan and Hoem 2010;Billingsley 2011). In most of these studies, women's education was found to have a significant positive effect on the transition to second births.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…More generally, it has been found for several countries that more highly educated women, once they leave school and university, have higher birth rates than their less educated peers. This extends to second-birth rates (Hoem and Hoem 1989;Kreyenfeld 2002;Oláh 2003;Köppen 2006;Neels 2006;Lappegård and Rønsen 2005;Gerster et al 2007;Klesment and Puur 2009). There is consequently some evidence of highly educated women catching up more after postponement.…”

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Second birth rates across europe: interactions between women's level of education and child care enrolment

Bavel¹

2010

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Fertility differences in Europe are to a large extent due to parity progression after the first child. We therefore use data from the third round of the European Social Survey to investigate second-birth rates in 23 countries. Focusing on the role of education level and child care availability, we argue that child care provision is an important determinant of the opportunity cost of parity progression, particularly for highly educated women. We find that in countries where the highly educated have lower second birth rates than the less educated, total fertility tends to be low, and vice versa. In addition, the effect of the timing of the first child appears to be mediated by education level and child care availability: in countries where large proportions of young children attend formal child care, the more highly educated exhibit much higher second-birth rates, while child care availability does not affect parity progression for the less educated.

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“…Neyer and Andersson (2008) highlight the analytical usefulness of studying cases in which many similarities are offset by a major difference in context. In the cases of Armenia and Moldova, both had similar economic and 1 See, for example, Bulgaria: Bühler and Philipov (2005), Philipov et al (2006), Philipov and Jasilioniene (2007); Czech Republic: Kantorová (2004), Klasen and Launov (2006), Sobotka (2003); Hungary: Oláh and Fratczak (2004), Philipov et al (2006), Spéder (2006; Poland: Bühler and Fratczak (2007), Kotowska et al (2008); Romania: Muresan andHoem (2009), Rotariu (2006); Slovakia: Potančoková et al (2008); Slovenia : Stropnik and Šircelj (2008 (Katus 2000;Klesment and Puur 2010), Lithuania (Stankuniene and Jasilioniene 2008) and in a few Central Asian Republics (Agadjanian et al 2008;Agadjanian and Makarova 2003).…”

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Second and Third Births in Armenia and Moldova: An Economic Perspective of Recent Behaviour and Current Preferences

Billingsley¹

2011

Eur J Population

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International audienceLittle is known about fertility in Armenia and Moldova, the two countries that have both, according to national statistics, experienced very low levels of fertility during the dramatic economic, social and political restructuring in the last two decades. This article fills this gap and explores recent fertility behaviour and current fertility preferences using 2005 Demographic and Health Survey data. Educational differences in fertility decline and the association between socioeconomic indicators and fertility preferences are considered from an economic perspective. Special emphasis is given to determining whether and how diverging economic conditions in the two countries as well as crisis conditions may have influenced fertility. Second parity progression ratios (PPR) reveal a positive relationship between the degree of decline from 1990 to 2005 and education, whereas third PPR declines appear the greatest for women with both the lowest and highest education. In both countries, logistic regression results suggest that working women are more likely to want a second child, as well as want the child sooner university than later in Armenia, and the wealthiest women in Armenia have a higher odds of wanting a third child. Dual-jobless couples are less likely to want a second child in Moldova and more likely to postpone the next child in Armenia. These findings offer some insight into the shifts in fertility behaviour in these two post-Soviet countries and suggest that despite diverging economic trajectories and a lessening commitment to the two-child norm in Moldova, determinants of fertility behaviour and preferences have remained similar in both countries

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Effects of education on second births before and after societal transition: Evidence from the Estonian GGS

Cited by 21 publications

References 53 publications

The effect of education on second births in Hungary

The effect of education on second births in Hungary

Second birth rates across europe: interactions between women's level of education and child care enrolment

Second and Third Births in Armenia and Moldova: An Economic Perspective of Recent Behaviour and Current Preferences

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