Educational attainment, labour market conditions and the timing of births
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https://doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v2i2.133Keywords:
fertility, hazard models, educationAbstract
This paper presents analyses of the effects of women’s education and the rate of aggregate unemployment on birth hazards using data from the 1958 and 1970 British cohort studies. The hazard of first birth was negatively associated with higher levels of education. Once controls for unobservables were included, there was no relationship between education and the hazard of second births. Lagged unemployment was found to be negatively related to first birth hazards but this was only statistically significant among the later cohort, while for higher order births there was evidence of a positive association with unemployment.Downloads
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