Varying association between education and second births in Europe

Fertility by Birth Order among the Descendants of Immigrants in Selected European Countries

“…The observed patterns are consistent with the variation in second births across European countries reported in previous studies (Goldstein and Kreyenfeld ; Klesment et al. ; Van Bavel and Różańska‐Putek ). Immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh in the UK, immigrants from Turkey and North Africa in France, and immigrants from Turkey and Morocco in Belgium have significantly higher second birth rates than most of the other groups in the respective countries, suggesting that the majority of women who become mothers have a second child.…”

Postindustrial Fertility Ideals, Intentions, and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis

“…Micro-level empirical research on the relationship between gender inequality and fertility in specific countries has focused especially on how the intended or actual transition to second birth is affected by individual-level factors such as husbands' and/or wives' gender-role ideology, husbands' share of housework, wives' labor force participation, and husbands' and wives' employment type (Adserà 2011;Brodmann, Esping-Andersen, and Güell 2007;Cooke 2004Cooke , 2008Klesment et al 2014;Mencarini and Tanturri 2004;Mills et al 2008;Nagase and Brinton 2017;Oláh 2003;Puur et al 2008;Torr and Short 2004). Couples who experience a higher degree of gender inequality in the household are predicted to have a lower probability of progressing to a second birth.…”

Education, labour, and the demographic consequences of birth postponement in Europe

“…For more recent cohorts (up to the 1965 cohort) the educational gradient of completed fertility is still found to be negative, albeit diminishing (for example, Andersson et al (2008) for the Nordic countries; Kravdal and Rindfuss (2008) for Norway; Neyer and Hoem (2008) for Sweden; Wood, Neels, and Kil (2014) for progression to first birth in 14 European countries). For cohorts currently of childbearing age, the most recent studies covering more than one country find strong variation between European countries in the association between female education and birth hazard (for example, Klesment et al 2014;d'Albis, Greulich, and Gobbi 2017).…”