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Education and postponement of maternity : economic analyses for industrialized countries / edited by Siv Gustafsson and Adriaan Kalwij.

Title: Education and postponement of maternity : economic analyses for industrialized countries / edited by Siv Gustafsson and Adriaan Kalwij.
Publication: Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.

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xiii, 325 p. : fig., tab.; 25 cm.

Summary

One of the most important demographic issues of our time is the increasing age of women at motherhood. This happens in the northern social democratic states Sweden and Norway, in the catholic countries Italy, Spain and Ireland, in the West European countries Netherlands and Germany, in the former socialist transition countries Czech Republic and East Germany, and in the liberal democracy of the United States. The postponement of maternity and the related issue of declining fertility rates are of major interest to policy makers and have provoked much scientific research. This book examines various economic aspects of the role of women’s education in the postponement of maternity in these ten industrialized countries. The chapters in this book each empirically investigate one of these countries using individual or household survey data and are in particular interested in the increasing age at motherhood with the investment in education of the mother. In search of socio-economic explanations for this relationship each chapter investigates a specific related research question. This results in a book that covers a wide range of topics on the economics of fertility decisions, such as career planning motives of women, consumption smoothing motives of households and the role of institutions.

Series Statement

European studies of population ; v. 15

Uniform Title

European studies of population v. 15.

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

Collection of texts partly published previously.
International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

and Contributions of this Volume -- Fertility Decisions: Economic Theory, Empirical Analysis, and Policy Relevance -- The Marginal Effect of School Leaving Age on Demographic Events. A Contribution to the Discussion on Causality -- Explaining the Fertility Decline in Ireland -- Female Labour Force Participation and Marital Fertility in Italy -- Career planning in Spain: do fixed-term contracts delay marriage and parenthood? -- The Family Earnings Gap and Postponement of Maternity in the United States -- Household Consumption, Saving and Employment Around the Time of Births in The Netherlands -- Family Formation in East and West Germany Before and After Unification -- Education and Entry into Motherhood in the Czech Republic During State-Socialism and the Transition Period 1970–1997 -- Assortative Mating by Education and Postponement of Couple Formation and First Birth in Britain and Sweden -- Education and Completed Fertility in Norway.

ISBN

1402047150 (hd.bd.)
9781402047152

OCLC

70268203
SCSB-10960644

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