Education and the changing age pattern of American fertility: 1963–1989 | Zendy

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Education and the changing age pattern of American fertility: 1963–1989

Author(s) -

Ronald R. Rindfuss,

S. Philip Morgan,

Kate Offutt

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061761

Subject(s) - fertility , demography , period (music) , population , total fertility rate , developed country , current population survey , socioeconomic status , geography , demographic economics , research methodology , family planning , sociology , economics , physics , acoustics

Using pooled data from the 1980, 1985, and 1990 Current Population Surveys, we describe fertility trends by age and education for the period 1963–1989. Interest focuses on whether the effects of education have changed across this period. We show that women with college degrees experienced dramatic shifts toward later ages of childbearing. This shift is consistent with arguments we develop about the increased opportunity for women to pursue careers and about changes in the availability of child care

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