Childbearing impeded education more than education impeded childbearing among Norwegian women.

Autor/inn/en	Cohen, Joel E.; Kravdal, Oystein; Keilman, Nico
Institution	National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC)
Titel	Childbearing impeded education more than education impeded childbearing among Norwegian women. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Geburt von Kindern wirkt sich bei norwegischen Frauen negativer auf das Bildungsniveau aus als das Bildungsniveau auf die Geburtenrate.
Quelle	Washington, DC (2011), S. 11830-11835 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108,29
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	0027-8424
DOI	10.1073/pnas.1107993108
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Generatives Verhalten; Kinderzahl; Mutter; Frau; Bildungsabschluss; Geburtenhäufigkeit; Qualifikationsstruktur; Altersabhängigkeit; Norwegen
Abstract	"In most societies, women at age 39 with higher levels of education have fewer children. To understand this association, we investigated the effects of childbearing on educational attainment and the effects of education on fertility in the 1964 birth cohort of Norwegian women. Using detailed annual data from ages 17 to 39, we estimated the probabilities of an additional birth, a change in educational level, and enrollment in the coming year, conditional on fertility history, educational level, and enrollment history at the beginning of each year. A simple model reproduced a declining gradient of children ever born with increasing educational level at age 39. When a counterfactual simulation assumed no effects of childbearing on educational progression or enrollment (without changing the estimated effects of education on childbearing), the simulated number of children ever born decreased very little with increasing completed educational level, contrary to data. However, when another counterfactual simulation assumed no effects of current educational level and enrollment on childbearing (without changing the estimated effects of childbearing on education), the simulated number of children ever born decreased with increasing completed educational level nearly as much as the decrease in the data. In summary, in these Norwegian data, childbearing impeded education much more than education impeded childbearing. These results suggest that women with advanced degrees have lower completed fertility on the average principally because women who have one or more children early are more likely to leave or not enter long educational tracks and never attain a high educational level." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1980 bis 2003.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/1