education and fertility

© Vienna Institute of Demography

VIENNA YEARBOOK OF POPULATION RESEARCH 2017 - ONLINE FIRST

SPECIAL ISSUE ON:

EDUCATION AND FERTILITY IN LOW-FERTILITY SETTINGS

Guest editors: Eva Beaujouan, Tomas Sobotka and Jan Van Bavel
Managing editor: Natalie Nitsche

INTRODUCTION

Education and fertility in low-fertility settings
Tomas Sobotka, Eva Beaujouan, Jan van Bavel
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DEMOGRAPHIC DEBATE

The future fertility of highly educated women: the role of educational composition shifts and labor market barriers
Alicia Adsera
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Education empowers women to reach their personal fertility target, regardless of what the target is
Wolfgang Lutz
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Will highly educated women have more children in the future? Looking at reproductive plans and outcomes
Maria Rita Testa
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What do men want? The growing importance of men’s characteristics for fertility
Jan Van Bavel
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Will highly educated women have more children in the future? In Southern Europe, it will largely depend on labour market conditions
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Francisco J. Viciana-Fernández, Víctor Montañés Cobo
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Education, gender revolution, and fertility recovery
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
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REVIEW ARTICLE

Education and fertility in the context of rising inequality
Alicia Adsera
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REFEREED ARTICLES

Cross-national differences in the association between educational attainment and completed fertility. Do welfare regimes matter?
Eva-Maria Merz and Aart C. Liefbroer
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The role of values and of socioeconomic status in the education-fertility link among men and women
Martin Lakomy
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Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education
Alessandra Trimarchi and Jan Van Bavel
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Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women’s and their partners’ education: evidence from Britain 1991–2012
Nitzan Peri-Rotem and Jacqueline Scott
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Do different educational pairings lead to different fertility outcomes? A cohort perspective for the Greek case
Christos Bagavos
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Educational field and fertility in western Germany: an analysis of women born between 1955 and 1959
Anja Oppermann
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Fertility and education among British Asian women: a success story of social mobility?
Sylvie Dubuc
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The educational gradient of fertility intentions: a meta-analysis of European studies
Maria Rita Testa and Fabian Stephany
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