Rising Dispersion in Age at First Birth in Europe: Is It Related to Fertility Postponement?

Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing

HOW FAR CAN THE shift to later childbearing in developed countries be accounted for by the growth in educational participation? A move to later childbearing has been a conspicuous feature of fertility trends in developed countries for many decades, and over that same period educational participation rates have risen substantially (OECD 2014, 2016a). The rising age at birth is often described as...

Effect of education on age at first birth in Semnan, Hormozgan, Kohkiloye and Booir Ahmad provinces, Iran

Introduction: Iran experienced a dramatic fertility decline during recent decades. There was also an indication of a shift towards later childbearing from 2000. Past research on fertility has shown that the education variable is the most important determinant of fertility behaviors. However, the impact of education on fertility timing in Iran has been less considered. Methods: In a cross secti...

Fertility postponement is largely due to rising educational enrolment

The rise in educational enrolment is often cited as a possible cause of the trend to later childbearing in developed societies but direct evidence of its contribution to the aggregate change in fertility tempo is scarce. We show that rising enrolment, resulting in later ages at the end of education, accounts for a substantial part of the upward shift in the mean age at first birth in the 1980s ...

Exploring Patterns of Period Fertility Postponement and Recovery in Europe: the Case of First Births

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2006, pp. 1-17

Postponement has been a major keyword in the description and the study of demographic trends observed in developed countries during the last decades. With few exceptions, during the recent decades demographic events such as those leading to the formation of new households and families have occurred later and later in the lives of women and men. Although considerable heterogeneity exists both be...