By Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka, Philippe Lambert and Vincent Jerald Ramos
This study uses a gender and class perspective to study rates of progression to the second birth in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1990-2020, they distinguish individuals by whether they are in (a) higher managerial/professional, (b) lower managerial/ professional, (c) skilled manual/higher routine nonmanual, or (d) the non skilled manual/lower routine non-manual classes. Their analysis reveals strongly elevated second birth rates among men and women in the managerial classes. They also show that upward mobility after the first birth is associated with higher second birth rates, particularly among men.