by Robert VerBruggen (@RAVerBruggen)
Women’s education and fertility are often thought of as enemies. Both school itself, and the better-paying jobs it prepares one for, can make it harder to prioritize having children. Here in the U.S., women with no high-school diploma have roughly twice the fertility of women with an associate’s degree or more.
But has Finland flipped the script? A new working paper, released through the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, raises the possibility but leaves much unclear.
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