Chart Of The Day II

Catherine Rampell tries to understand why educated women today are more likely to have children than educated women in the 1990s:

Perhaps this has something to do with Claudia Goldin's findingsthat some of the fields that require the most educational investmentupfront — like pediatrics, or veterinary medicine — also happen to befields whose work schedules allow for a healthy work-family balance.High-achieving women who want children may be discovering this, andmaking their career choices...