Original title: The quiet revolution and the family: gender composition of tertiary education and early fertility patterns
Authors: Bičáková, Alena ; Jurajda, Štěpán
Document type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Language: eng
Series: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 504
Abstract: It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection causality nexus. We use variation in gender composition of fields of study implied by the recent expansion of tertiary education in 19 European countries and a difference-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little.
Keywords: fertility; field-of-study gender segregation; tertiary graduates
Project no.: GBP402/12/G130 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR

Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp504.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0233565

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