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Education and Fertility in Germany

In: Demographic Change in Germany

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  • Michaela Kreyenfeld

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

  • Dirk Konietzka

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Abstract

Germany’s completed fertility rates are among the lowest in Europe. The total number of children born to West German women of the 1965 birth cohort is estimated to be 1.5 children per woman. A Swedish or French woman of the same cohort will have given birth to almost 2 children during her life time (Council of Europe 2004). Germany’s low fertility in part is manifest in a high proportion of childlessness. Even though childlessness is advancing in many European countries (Dorbritz and Ruckdeschel 2007), Germany stands out with exceptionally high figures. More than 20 percent of the West German female cohort of 1960 are remaining childless at the end of their reproductive life (Konietzka and Kreyenfeld 2007).

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  • Michaela Kreyenfeld & Dirk Konietzka, 2008. "Education and Fertility in Germany," Springer Books, in: Ingrid Hamm & Helmut Seitz & Martin Werding (ed.), Demographic Change in Germany, pages 165-187, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-68137-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68137-3_7
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    1. Alessandra Trimarchi & Jan Van Bavel, 2017. "Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 54(1), pages 119-144, February.
    2. Christos Bagavos, 2010. "Education and childlessness: the relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born in 1955-1959," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 8(1), pages 51-75.
    3. Jessica Nisén & Pekka Martikainen & Mikko Myrskylä & Karri Silventoinen, 2018. "Education, Other Socioeconomic Characteristics Across the Life Course, and Fertility Among Finnish Men," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 34(3), pages 337-366, August.
    4. Alessandra Trimarchi & Jan Van Bavel, 2018. "Gender differences and similarities in the educational gradient in fertility: The role of earnings potential and gender composition in study disciplines," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 39(13), pages 381-414.
    5. Anja Oppermann, 2017. "Educational field and fertility in western Germany: an analysis of women born between 1955 and 1959," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 15(1), pages 239-267.
    6. Petra Stein & Sebastian Willen & Monika Pavetic, 2014. "Couples' fertility decision-making," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 30(63), pages 1697-1732.
    7. Felix Busch, 2020. "Gender Segregation, Occupational Sorting, and Growth of Wage Disparities Between Women," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 57(3), pages 1063-1088, June.
    8. Zuzanna Brzozowska, 2015. "Intergenerational educational mobility and completed fertility," IBS Working Papers 1/2015, Instytut Badan Strukturalnych.

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