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  • Westerberg, Thomas

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    The purpose of this study is to analyze if economic and social conditions have any impact on the number of children born by women in Sweden. The results support (not surprisingly) a negative correlation between women’s working experience and number of children. The results do also support the assumption that women with higher education have fewer children than women with lower. However, this holds only when non-completed fertility is analyzed. It is not valid for the group of women with completed fertility.

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    Paper provided by Umeå University, Department of Economics in its series Umeå Economic Studies with number 682.

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    Length: 16 pages
    Date of creation: 24 May 2006
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    Handle: RePEc:hhs:umnees:0682

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    Keywords: Completed fertility; Non-completed fertility; Economics; Count data; Sweden;

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