Trends in Completed Fertility by Educational Field: Swedish Men and Women Born 1946–1975

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Population and Development Review Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI:10.1111/padr.70008

Mark Gortfelder, Gunnar Andersson, Gerda Neyer

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Previous research on fertility by field of education has revealed stronger fertility variation than by the more frequently studied metric of educational level. However, this line of research has not focused on both men and women and changes across cohorts. Our study is the first to analyze cohort trends in fertility by field of education for both sexes and includes the cohorts of educational expansion and the development towards the dual‐earner–dual carer family model. We focus on native Swedes born 1946–1975. Swedish register data are used to depict educational orientation, educational level, and the number of children at age 45. The ranking of educational fields by childlessness and completed fertility is remarkably similar for men and women and stable across cohorts. Distinguishing the fields by level gives a largely analogous picture, but detailing educational fields reveals some different developments by sex and cohort. The similarity in patterns between men and women suggests that field‐based attributes and conditions in resulting occupations may matter more than gender conformity for fertility outcomes.

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按教育领域划分的已完成生育率趋势：1946-1975年出生的瑞典男女

以往按教育领域对生育率的研究表明，生育率的变化比更经常研究的教育水平指标更大。然而，这方面的研究并没有同时关注男性和女性，也没有关注人群之间的变化。我们的研究首次分析了按性别教育领域划分的生育率队列趋势，并包括教育扩张和向双收入-双照顾家庭模式发展的队列。我们专注于1946-1975年出生的瑞典本地人。瑞典的登记数据用于描述教育取向、教育水平和45岁儿童的数量。男性和女性在教育领域的无子女和已完成生育的排名非常相似，而且在各个群体中都很稳定。按水平区分这些领域大致可以得出类似的结果，但详细描述教育领域则显示出按性别和群体划分的一些不同发展。男性和女性之间模式的相似性表明，基于领域的属性和所产生的职业条件可能比性别一致性对生育结果更重要。

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