patterns with regard to the completed fertility-intentions gap, most apparent for the childlessness gap. In addition, the gap …We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States … data on completed or almost completed fertility in the same cohorts later in life when they were aged 40 and older. In …

tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education’s equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of …

, as are black-white fertility differentials. However, little is known on how first birth postponement and childlessness … differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with …A postponement of first births among college graduates, and increases in childlessness in the US are well documented …