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Title: Female Education, Fertility, and Spousal Education Inequality Across Pairings

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: This study explores couples' fertility outcomes for different levels of female education and varying levels of spousal education inequality. We retrieved individual-level data from the IPUMS-CPS database for birth cohorts between 1923 and 1982. Following a repeated cross-section analysis, we show that the female education effect on fertility ranges from negative to positive. The most detrimental one was found in hypogamous couples (women more educated than men) with the highest spousal education gap. A positive correlation emerged solely in homogamous couples (equally educated spouses) of advanced levels of education. Given that hypogamy has the potential to dominate in future forms of educational pairing, the results of this study could provide valuable insights for policymakers in planning more effective fertility policies.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5179778

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Authors: Mavropoulos, Georgias

Publisher: SSRN

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Gender

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