Gender composition of college graduates by field of study and early fertility

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F17%3A00480703" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/17:00480703 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11640/17:00482125

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-015-9309-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-015-9309-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-015-9309-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11150-015-9309-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gender composition of college graduates by field of study and early fertility

Original language description

The gender composition of peer groups has been shown to affect marriage market outcomes, but there is no evidence on whether the share of women on college graduates across fields of study affects graduates’ fertility, even though the college field-of-study peer group is a natural source of potential mating partners. We use variation in gender shares by fields of study implied by the recent expansion of college education in 19 European countries, and a difference-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women in study peer groups does not drive early fertility. When there are few available potential partners in one’s field of study, endogamous fertility by college graduates from the same field of study is lower, as expected, but non-endogamous fertility compensates for this effect for both genders. This compensation, however, comes at the cost of increasing the probability of parenting with a less-than-college educated spouse.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GBP402%2F12%2FG130" target="_blank" >GBP402/12/G130: The relationships between skills, schooling and labor market outcomes: A longitudinal study</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Review of Economics of the Household

ISSN

1569-5239

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

1323-1343

UT code for WoS article

000414210500013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84941712109