The Paper in a Figure

Abstract

Baudin et al. (2015) document that childlessness rates in the U.S. in 1990 exhibit a U-shaped relationship with women’s education, with highly educated women much more likely to be childless than other women. We show that this is no longer true: the highly educated women’s childlessness rate has converged to that of other women. We argue that these women are now able to marketize the time cost of child rearing, allowing them to have both a family and career.