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Low fertility of highly educated women: the impact of child care infrastructure

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Schrage, Andrea

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Most studies of the negative correlation between fertility and education treat education as exogenously raising wages and the cost of child rearing, thus reducing fertility. I relax these assumptions in two respects. First, child costs don't increase with the value of time when external child care is used. Second, over a lifetime, education is endogenous. I model women's choice of education, fertility, and form of child care, allowing for economies of scale in parental child care. Compatibility between work and family duties increases labor supply, the demand for children of educated women, and enhances incentives for obtaining education.

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Paper provided by University of Regensburg, Department of Economics in its series Regensburger Diskussionsbeiträge zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft with number 421.

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Keywords: endogenous fertility child care education Kinderbetreuungskosten Fertilität Bildungsplanung Arbeitsangebot

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J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household

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