A major objective is to find out how expansion of education and women’s
increased labour participation have influenced Norwegian birth rates over the
last few decades, and how the access to non-parental child care modifies such
effects. The analyses are based partly on large surveys, partly on individual
life histories extracted from registers that cover the entire Norwegian
population. Further studies of child care and fertility in Norway are now
undertaken, in co-operation with Ron Rindfuss and David Guilkey at the
University of North Carolina and Phillip Morgan at Duke University.
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importance of economic activity, economic potential and economic resources for
the timing of first birth in
Kravdal, Ø. (1996). How the local
supply of day-care centers influences fertility in
Kravdal, Ø. (2001). The high fertility of college
educated women in
Kravdal, Ø. (2002). The impact of individual and
aggregate unemployment on fertility in
Kravdal, Ø. (2002). Is the increase in second- and
higher-order birth rates in
Kravdal Ø. (2004). An illustration of the
problems caused by incomplete education histories in fertility analysis. Demographic
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