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Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union.
Article in Demography, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- No Partner, No Children? Union Formation, Assortative Mating, and Educational Inequalities in Fertility in Germany.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2026Article
- Fathers' Involvement in the Family, Fertility, and Maternal Employment: Evidence From Central and Eastern Europe.Demography · 2021Article
- Preferences, Partners, and Parenthood: Linking Early Fertility Desires, Marriage Timing, and Achieved Fertility.Demography · 2020Article
- Partners' Educational Characteristics and Fertility: Disentangling the Effects of Earning Potential and Unemployment Risk on Second Births.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2020Article
- The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2020Article
- Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Context: Decade in Review, 2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Trends in Childlessness Among Highly Educated Men in Sweden.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2019Article
- Education, Gender, and Cohort Fertility in the Nordic Countries.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2019Article
- Partners' Educational Pairings and Fertility Across Europe.Demography · 2018Article
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Abstract
Although advanced education has been found to be consistently associated with a later transition to parenthood for women, findings about education and the transition to parenthood have been much less consistent for men, and no stylized fact has emerged from the literature. We argue that the inconsistency of findings for men is due to the fact that the selection process involved in union formation has been disregarded in earlier studies. We hypothesize that men's educational attainment consistently and positively affects the transition to fatherhood via higher rates of union formation. We apply multiprocess event-history analysis to data from the Generations and Gender Surveys for 10 European countries. Our results show indeed a consistent positive effect of education on the transition to fatherhood, but it operates chiefly through selection into union. Failing to account for this selection process leads to a major underestimation of the salience of education for the transition to fatherhood.
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