Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.20.1.02
Education and Fertility of Employed Women in Croatia
Ivan ČIPIN
orcid.org/0000-0002-5624-0359
; Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb
Abstract
This paper investigates to what extent women’s educational
attainment is related to their demographic behavior,
especially the age of first birth and the ultimate number of
children. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether
the difference in the age of first birth among women with a
different educational attainment exists and how significant it
is. Additionally, we investigate the impact of different
educational attainment of women on the fertility quantum.
Multinomial logistic regression and other statistical techniques
are applied to the data from the survey conducted in 2007
on the proportional quota sample of 1309 employed women
in Croatia aged 20-39. The results show that there are
differences in women’s fertility according to their educational
attainment, and educational attainment has a significant role
in determining the timing of fertility. When applying pro-
-natalistic policy measures, one should bear in mind that the
highest difference between the actual and desired number of
children is found among highly educated women.
Keywords
fertility; age of first birth; women’s educational attainment; employed women
Hrčak ID:
65350
URI
Publication date:
17.3.2011.
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