Childlessness and educational attainment among Swedish women born in 1955-59.

Autor/inn/en	Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Titel	Childlessness and educational attainment among Swedish women born in 1955-59. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kinderlosigkeit und Bildungserfolg bei schwedischen Frauen der Geburtsjahrgänge 1955-1959.
Quelle	Rostock (2005), 53 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	MPIDR Working Paper. 2005-014
Beigaben	Tabellen 2; grafische Darstellungen 3
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Generatives Verhalten; Kinderlosigkeit; Frau; Berufsfeld; Frau; Generatives Verhalten; Schweden; Kinderlosigkeit; Bildungsniveau; Hochschulbildung; Berufsfeld; Hochschulbildung; Schweden
Abstract	"In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational histories of an entire cohort of women born in Sweden (about a quarter-million individuals). This allows us to operate with a high number of educational field-and-level combinations (some sixty in all). It turns out that the field of education serves as an indicator of a woman's potential reproductive behavior better than the mere level. We discover that in each field permanent childlessness increases (some) with the educational level attained, but that the field itself is the more important. In general, we find that women educated for jobs in teaching and health care are in a class of their own, with much lower permanent childlessness than in any other major grouping at each educational level. Women educated in arts and humanities or for religious occupations have unusually high fractions permanently childless. Our results cast doubt on the assumption that higher education per se must result in higher childlessness. In our opinion, several factors intrinsic and extrinsic to an educational system (such as its flexibility, its gender structure, and the manner in which education is hooked up to the labor market) may influence the relationship between education and childlessness, and we would not expect a simple, unidirectional relationship." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2006/3