Overview
- Empirical socio-economic research on the increasing age at motherhood with the investment in education
- An overview of the economic theory and empirical analysis of fertility decisions
- 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
- Empirical analyses using individual and household survey data from ten Industrialized countries
Part of the book series: European Studies of Population (ESPO, volume 15)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education and Postponement of Maternity
Book Subtitle: Economic Analyses for Industrialized Countries
Editors: Siv Gustafsson, Adriaan Kalwij
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4716-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4715-2Published: 19 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7177-4Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4716-9Published: 12 September 2006
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 327
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Social Policy, Economics, general