TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barakat, Bilal
A1  - Durham, Rachel
T1  - Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers: Educational fertility differentials by occupational
status and industry in six European countries
Y1  - 2013/06/18
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 1213
EP  - 1262
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.42
VL  - 28
IS  - 42
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/42/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/42/28-42.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/42/28-42.pdf
N2  - Background: Understanding the relationship of education to fertility requires the disentangling of the
potentially confounding effect of social status, which is highly correlated with education. 

Objective: We contribute to this aim by examining educational fertility differentials within occupational
groups and industries across a broad swath of Central and Eastern Europe, specifically
Austria, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, and Switzerland. 

Methods: Cross-sectional individual-level census samples from the Integrated Public Use Microdata
Series (IPUMS) are sufficiently large to contain sizeable numbers of unusual combinations,
e.g., university graduates in low-status jobs or primary school dropouts in professional
categories. Completed cohort fertility, as well as the share childless and with high parity, are regressed on effects for educational attainment, occupation, industry, and all their interactions within a Bayesian framework, and the contributions to the outcome variation are analysed. 

Results: Education has a strong, consistent association with fertility outcomes when industry and
occupation are held constant. Furthermore, fertility by industry and occupation yields fairly disparate patterns. We also find that differences in completed fertility across countries can be attributed to country-specific compositional differences in education, industry, and occupation, and to interaction effects. However, differences by country in the baseline
rate of childlessness and high parity cannot be attributed to such compositional effects. 

Conclusions: The educational fertility gradient in the settings studied cannot be attributed to an occupational composition effect. 

ER  -