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Table 6 Fertility levels and timing of births by education (Std. Dev.)

From: An accounting exercise for the shift in life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960Eine Bilanzierung der Verschiebungen der Lebensverlauf-Beschäftigungsprofile von verheirateten Frauen der Jahrgänge zwischen 1940 und 1960

 

1940 Cohort

1960 Cohort

Total number of children ever born:

High school

2.6 (1.2)

2.1 (1.1)

College

2.3 (1.2)

1.8 (1.1)

Age of mother at birth of first child:

High school

23.3 (2.7)

25.5 (4.7)

College

25.9 (3.7)

29.2 (4.6)