Effect Of Men's Educational Attainment On Their Fertility

We are interested whether the effects of men’s educational attainment on their fertility diminished over time across welfare regimes and by partnership types.

Some research questions will be under study:

What is the effect of educational attainment of men on their fertility? Is it different for men in consensual unions and in direct marriages? In which national context men’s fertility level specific to consensual union may be close to the total fertility rate of married fathers. Our hypothesis is that, in gender egalitarian societies, with more similar gender equality across welfare-state institutions, the total fertility of men (and women) depend less on their educational attainment but more on the type of union patterns. In more traditional societies the effect of education on male fertility is more important, despite the fact that is often the opposite of what it is for women.

GGS data for available countries will be used to compute duration-based total union specific fertility rates in the spirit of parity-progression ratios developed by Hoem and Muresan (2011) and to analyse life-time fertility determinants. The following variables will be included in the analyses: family background, gender, age, social background, partnership status, parental status, educational enrollment, educational attainment, calendar year, etc.