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Stop Stale Eggs, Jobs?
\nBy Robin Hanson \u00b7 March 17, 2010 9:15 am \u00b7 Discuss \u00b7 \u00ab Prev \u00b7 Next \u00bb
\nSome men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. Shaw
\nThe average woman is born with around 300,000 eggs \u2026 12 percent of those eggs remaining at the age of 30, and only 3 percent left by 40. \u2026 From the mid-30s on, the decline in fertility is much steeper with each passing year. \u2026 Female undergraduates significantly overestimated their fertility prospects at all ages. \u2026 The biological reality that female fertility peaks in the teens and early 20s can be difficult for many American women to swallow, as they delay childbirth further every year. \u2026 The older you get, the more difficult it is to get pregnant and the higher the chance of miscarriage, pregnancy problems such as gestational diabetes and hypertension, and chromosomal abnormalities such as Down syndrome. \u2026 The risk of autism increases with a mother\u2019s age.
\nMore here. Also, Andrew Leigh:
\nWe estimate the relationship between maternal age and child \u2026 learning outcomes and social outcomes. \u2026 Children of older mothers have better outcomes. \u2026 When we control for other socioeconomic characteristics, such as family income, parental education and single parenthood, the coefficients on maternal age become small and statistically insignificant.
\nToday high status women stay long in school, start careers, and take long to match up with a man before having kids. They are often too late, their kids have more defects, and the interruption hurts their career. Low status women more often have an accidental early kid out of wedlock.
\nImagine a different equilibrium, where females pick a male at 15, then school more slowly to have kids till some standard age (20? 25? 30?), when females return to full-time school and uninterrupted careers.
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