Affiliation:
1. University of Liverpool
2. University of Oxford
Abstract
Abstract
We use a modeling approach parameterized with current UK lifehistory data to show that, if they are to match the reproductive performance of women in the higher socio-economic classes, women in lower socio-economic classes must opt for a significantly earlier onset of reproduction in order to offset the higher class-specific mortality and infertility rates that they face. Women from low socio-economic classes cannot afford to postpone reproduction in order to enter a career unless that career pathway facilitates upward mobility into a higher socioeconomic class.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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