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Baby gap: Does more education make for less children?

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  • Westphal, Matthias
  • Kamhöfer, Daniel A.

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Female college graduates are less likely to bear children but once a mother, they have more children than non-college graduates. - RWI presents first evidence on why college educated women have less children than women who did not go to college. While tertiary education has a direct negative impact on women's probability to become a mother, college educated mothers bear more children than noncollege educated mothers. Career disadvantages might discourage highly educated women from having children. More flexible working hours and means-tested maternal leave benefits could reduce the baby gap.

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  • Westphal, Matthias & Kamhöfer, Daniel A., 2019. "Baby gap: Does more education make for less children?," RWI Impact Notes 196550, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:rwiimp:196550
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