Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background.

Autor/inn/en	Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof
Institution	Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk Utvärdering
Titel	Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Qualfikationen, Bildung und Fruchtbarkeit und der konfundierende Einfluss des familiären Hintergrunds.
Quelle	Uppsala (2019), 42 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy. Working paper. 2019,10
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1651-1166
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Soziale Herkunft; Kinderzahl; Frau; Frau; Kinderzahl; Mann; Schweden; Soziale Herkunft; Bildungsniveau; Humankapital; Fruchtbarkeit; Humankapital; Qualifikationsgrad; Geschlechtsspezifik; Mann; Schweden
Abstract	"Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family background factors using twin (or sibling) fixed effects. For males, human capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more educated and skilled males tend to have more children than their less skilled peers once we use twin/sibling fixed effects to remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively associated once the joint family components are removed, i.e. when studying the within-family associations. The one human capital measure which deviates from these patterns is non-cognitive ability, which has a very strong overall positive association with fertility, an association which instead is muted within families. We end by showing that these results can be reconciled in a stylized theoretical model where family-specific preferences for fertility shape the relative investments in different types of skills and traits when children are small as well as the choices, in terms of family formation and human capital investments, these children make when they enter into adulthood." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/4