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Input: Childlessness Falls, Family Size Grows Among Highly Educated Women 
  
 Among women in the United States, postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand. The share of highly educated women who are remaining childless into their mid-40s has fallen significantly over the past two decades. 
  
 Today, about one-in-five women ages 40 to 44 with a master’s degree or higher (22%) have no children – down from 30% in 1994, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released Census Bureau data. The decline is particularly dramatic among women with an M.D. or Ph.D. – fully 35% were childless in 1994, while today the share stands at 20%. Not only are highly educated women more likely to have children these days, they are also having bigger families than in the past. Among women with at least a master’s degree, six-in-ten have had two or more children, up from 51% in 1994. The share with two children has risen 4 percentage points, while the share with three or more has risen 6 percentage points. 
  
 This trend has likely been driven by demographic and societal changes. It coincides with women’s growing presence in managerial and leadership positions and suggests that an increasing share of professional women are confronting the inevitable push and pull of work-family balance. Previous Pew Research analysis has found that overall women devote fewer hours to paid work with each additional child they have. On average, a working-age woman with no children spends 27 hours per week in paid work, while a woman with three or more children spends 18 hours working. In addition, working mothers are more than three times as likely as working fathers to say that being a working parent has made it more difficult for them to advance in their career (51% vs. 16%). 
  
 Fueled in part by the increases in motherhood among highly educated women, childlessness among all women ages 40 to 44 in the U.S. is at its lowest point in a decade. In 1994, 18% of all women at the end of their childbearing years had not borne a child. That number rose to 20% by the mid-2000s before declining to 15% in 2014. At the same time, the average number of children that U.S. women have in their lifetime has remained quite stable over the past 20 years, at about two children. 
  
 The fact that completed family size has changed little since the mid-1990s may seem counterintuitive, given the amount of attention often directed toward the so-called “Baby Bust�? in the post-recession U.S. It is true that analyses based on changes in annual fertility rates have shown consistent declines in childbearing since 2007, suggesting that fertility is at an all-time low. However, these analyses are capturing fertility at one point in time, as opposed to the cumulative measure of lifetime fertility used in this analysis. Part of what accounts for the low fertility indicated by annual rates is the fact that many women are putting off having children until later in life, both due to broad cultural changes (such as increasing education), and due to the Great Recession, which intensified delayed childbearing, particularly among younger women. What remains to be seen is whether these declines in annual birth rates will continue, and will translate into lower lifetime fertility for women at the end of their childbearing years. Some experts suspect that, as with past economic downturns, women may ultimately “catch up�? on their fertility, though one recent analysis suggests that fertility delayed due to the Great Recession may in fact be fertility foregone. 
  
 Regardless of short-term fertility patterns and their implications, there is no denying that the longer-term trend has been toward much smaller American families. Looking back to 1976, the first year for which data are available, the average woman in her early 40s in the U.S. had given birth to three children, and 36% of women in this age range had four or more children. By 2014, the large family sizes that prevailed in the 1970s had been fully supplanted by the two-child family. Now 35% of all women ages 40 to 44 have two children, while just 12% have four or more. At the same time, one-child families have gained ground – today 18% of women at the end of their childbearing years have an only child, up from 10% in 1976. About 20% of women have three children, a number that has remained virtually unchanged. 
  
 These findings are based on a Pew Research Center analysis of civilian women near the end of their childbearing years, using data from the 1976-2014 June Supplements of the Current Population Survey. The June Supplement is typically conducted every other year, and produces a nationally representative sample of the non-institutionalized population of the U.S. While the overview and first section of this report analyzes childlessness and fertility among all women, the final section examines mothers only, focusing on trends and variations in the number of children that they have had in their lifetimes. 
  
 Other key findings: 
  
 While fertility trends among highly educated women show a clear pattern of less childlessness and bigger families, the trends among less-educated women are not as clear-cut. Childlessness is down among women lacking a high school diploma and among women with a bachelor’s degree, but otherwise family size for these two groups has changed little since 1994. And among high school graduates, the share of women ages 40 to 44 with one child has increased, but there has been no change in the share with bigger families. 
  
 The educational “gaps�? in childlessness and in family size have narrowed in the past two decades, but they do persist. The more education a woman has, up to a bachelor’s degree, the less likely she is to become a mother. And among mothers, those with more education have fewer children than those with less education. For instance, just 13% of moms lacking a high school diploma have one child, while fully 26% have four or more, while among mothers with a master’s degree or more, 23% have only children and just 8% have four or more. 
  
 Fertility patterns differ significantly by race and ethnicity. Some 17% of white women ages 40 to 44 are childless, compared with 15% of black women in the same age group, 13% of Asian women and just 10% of Hispanic women. 
  
 Hispanic and black mothers ages 40 to 44 are especially likely to have large families. Fully 20% of Hispanic moms have four or more children, as do 18% of black moms. In comparison, just 11% of white mothers have four or more children, as do 10% of Asian mothers. Since 1988, there has been a dramatic decline in the share of mothers with four or more children among Hispanics, blacks and whites. ||||| Married, supereducated, high-earning Americans could be having more kids, and everyone else, less. GETTY IMAGES 
  
 A growing share of highly educated U.S. women are having children, and more are having bigger families. 
  
 Just 22% of U.S. women ages 40 to 44 with a master’s degree or more had no children last year, down from 30% in 1994, according to a new analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center. If only women with a medical degree or a Ph.D. are considered, this figure falls to 20% from 35% in 1994. 
  
 Meanwhile, the percentage of U.S. mothers 40 to 44 with a postgraduate degree who have one child (as opposed to more) has declined to 23% in 2014 from 28% in 1994. The share having three or more children has risen from 22% to 27%. 
  
 “Postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand,” says Pew’s Gretchen Livingston. 
  
 The fact that highly educated women are becoming more likely to have children could mean women are having an easier time juggling work and family. Generally speaking, mothers with more education tend to have fewer children than those with less education. 
  
 Pew’s findings are affected by the rising share of women with postgraduate degrees: About 14% of U.S. women ages 40 to 44 have a master’s degree or more, compared with 10% in 1994. If having an advanced degree is more common among women, it’s natural to some extent for recent numbers to reflect more child-having among highly educated women. 
  
 Interestingly, Pew’s analysis shows that among mothers with a high-school diploma, the share having two children at the end of their childbearing years (40 to 44) declined by 5 percentage points, down from 43% in 1994. There’s also been an increase in this group in having just one child. 
  
 Basically, the long-time “gap” between the fertility of educated versus less-educated mothers—more educated mothers have fewer kids—is closing. 
  
 This could help explain what’s happening with statistics on marriage and fertility. Data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention earlier this year showed that married U.S. women are having more children, while unmarried women are having less. 
  
 This may not be a coincidence: Highly educated Americans tend to get married; less-educated women are less likely to do so. And, of course, both marriage and higher levels of education are associated with higher incomes. 
  
 The upshot: Married, supereducated, high-earning Americans could be having more kids, and everyone else, less. 
  
 Related reading: 
  
 Millennial Parents More Likely Than Gen Xers To Increase Work After Kids, Survey Says 
  
 First Comes the ‘Marriage Gap,’ Then Comes the ‘Baby Gap’ 
  
 Married Women in America Are Having More Kids. Unmarried Women? Not So Much 
  
 More Women Over 35 Are Having Kids Out of Marriage 
  
 For More American Moms, Kids Are a Late-30s Thing 
  
 Baby Bust Threatens Growth |||||
Output:
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reported that married women in the US are having more children, while unmarried women are having fewer. It may not be a coincidence, then, that a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census data finds that more married women in the US who are also highly educated are now having kids, and more of them. "Postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand," writes Pew's Gretchen Livingston. Specifically, 78% of US women between the ages of 40 and 44 with a master's degree or more had at least one child last year, up from 70% in 1994. And when only looking at women with a PhD or MD, that figure jumps more, from 65% in 1994 to 80% in 2014. Dissecting the numbers even further, the report finds that among these highly educated mothers, those with just one kid dropped from 28% in 1994 to 23% in 2014, while the percentage of those with three or more kids ticked up from 22% to 27%. At the same time, more women in this age range have advanced degrees now (14%) than they did in 1994 (10%), so "it's natural to some extent for recent numbers to reflect more child-having among highly educated women," reports the Wall Street Journal. How Livingston frames the findings: "It ... suggests that an increasing share of professional women are confronting the inevitable push and pull of work-family balance." (Another baby story making headlines: a rare court case in which twins were found to have different fathers.)