Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270569 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CINCH Series No. 2017/05
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center, Essen
Abstract: 
We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the effects by the timing of birth reveals a postponement that goes beyond the time in college - indicating a negative early-career effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for non-mothers as compared to mothers the timing effects moreover suggest that career and family are not fully compatible.
Subjects: 
Fertility
family planning
education
JEL: 
C31
H52
I21
J12
J13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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