Introduction | Introduction: education and fertility in low-fertility settings | Demographic Debate | The future fertility of highly educated women: the role of educational composition shifts and labor market barriers | Education empowers women to reach their personal fertility target, regardless of what the target is | Will highly educated women have more children in the future? Looking at reproductive plans and outcomes | What do men want? The growing importance of men’s characteristics for fertility | Will highly educated women have more children in the future? In Southern Europe, it will largely depend on labour market conditions | Education, gender revolution, and fertility recovery | Review Article | Education and fertility in the context of rising inequality | Refereed Articles | Cross-national differences in the association between educational attainment and completed fertility. Do welfare regimes matter? | The role of values and of socioeconomic status in the education-fertility link among men and women | Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education | Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women’s and their partners’ education: evidence from Britain 1991–2012 | Do different educational pairings lead to different fertility outcomes? A cohort perspective for the Greek case | Educational field and fertility in western Germany: an analysis of women born between 1955 and 1959 | Fertility and education among British Asian women: a success story of social mobility? | The educational gradient of fertility intentions: a meta-analysis of European studies

The 2017 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research examines the relationship between education and fertility in low-fertility contexts. The contributions document well the context-specific nature of the link between education and family behaviours, especially with respect to fertility levels, fertility timing, childlessness, non-marital childbearing, and fertility intentions. Besides their common focus on education, many articles apply a comparative perspective that illustrates the variation of education-fertility links. Six studies go beyond the usual focus on women’s fertility by analysing fertility levels or fertility intentions of both women and men, or by adopting a couple perspective to study fertility. Other studies apply a cohort perspective, provide a more detailed look at family size distributions and parity-specific patterns of family building and of reproductive intentions. This volume of the Vienna Yearbook features six invited debate contributions discussing the question of whether highly educated women will have more children in the future. 

Education and fertilitiy in low-fertility settings

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Authors for this volume | Introduction | Education and the Global Fertility Transition | Refereed Articles | Women’s education and fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa | A reassessment of the effects of female education and employment on fertility in Nigeria | One or two pathways to individual modernity? The effects of education on family formation among women in Japan and Germany | Spousal and parental roles among female student populations in 55 low- and middleincome countries | Number of children and cognitive abilities in later life | The reversal of gender inequality in education, union formation and fertility in Europe

The 2012 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research presents research focusing on the links between education and global fertility change and their implications. The long-term rise of education levels is among the key drivers of fertility decline in the course of the demographic transition. Articles in this volume pay special attention to changes in school attainment and the implications for the timing and level of fertility. Several key channels through which education growth and changing education balance between couples affect fertility are investigated, ranging from its effects on female financial autonomy to the effects on marriage markets characterised by high levels of educational homogamy. The studies featured in this volume also cover fertility and family transitions and their consequences in different stages of the life course, including spousal and parental roles among student populations, contrasting pathways to family formation in different cultures of Japan and Germany and the consequences of family size for cognitive abilities later in life.

 

Education and the Global Fertility Transition

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