<p>The social and economic transformation of Poland in 1989 led to a change in the educational structure, increasing the proportion of women with tertiary education. This is often seen as one of the main factors behind the decline in fertility. However, women with tertiary education show heterogeneity in other forms of cultural capital. In the existing literature, there is little evidence of analyses of the relation of different forms of cultural capital on fertility during societal change. Therefore, the analysis aims to determine whether differences in cultural capital among women with tertiary education affect fertility outcomes. Using the framework of social class theory and the concept of capital transformation, we propose that among tertiary-educated women, those with high levels of other forms of cultural capital should have higher fertility. The analysis is based on the Stata module that allows the estimation of total fertility rates based on reproductive histories from the Determinants of Educational Decisions survey. The results show that women with tertiary education do not differ in fertility with respect to selected measures of cultural capital. However, women with the highest levels of cultural capital initially show a greater decline in fertility, but later a more pronounced increase in TFR, in comparison to women with lower cultural capital and lower levels of education. </p>

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Cultural capital and fertility trends in Poland throughout the socio-economic transformation: estimation of TFR based on birth histories from a longitudinal survey

  • Krzysztof Tymicki

摘要

The social and economic transformation of Poland in 1989 led to a change in the educational structure, increasing the proportion of women with tertiary education. This is often seen as one of the main factors behind the decline in fertility. However, women with tertiary education show heterogeneity in other forms of cultural capital. In the existing literature, there is little evidence of analyses of the relation of different forms of cultural capital on fertility during societal change. Therefore, the analysis aims to determine whether differences in cultural capital among women with tertiary education affect fertility outcomes. Using the framework of social class theory and the concept of capital transformation, we propose that among tertiary-educated women, those with high levels of other forms of cultural capital should have higher fertility. The analysis is based on the Stata module that allows the estimation of total fertility rates based on reproductive histories from the Determinants of Educational Decisions survey. The results show that women with tertiary education do not differ in fertility with respect to selected measures of cultural capital. However, women with the highest levels of cultural capital initially show a greater decline in fertility, but later a more pronounced increase in TFR, in comparison to women with lower cultural capital and lower levels of education.