Abstract
The reproductive behavior of the Czech population began to change together with the change of political regime in Czechia after 1989. The most significant changes that took place in Czechia since 1989 include among other things a substantial drop in the number of births and significant fertility postponement.
It has been proven that education is one of the factors that have a crucial influence on fertility timing in the present. The aim of this paper is to summarize the current state of knowledge documenting the influence of the educational attainment level on the fertility of Czech women from the early 1990s to the present.
It turns out that women are most often starting families after completing education and stabilization on the labour market. Women with university degree postpone the birth of children to the later age and the proportion of university educated women in the population is still growing.
At the same time, there is a group of women in the Czech population who are starting families and continue in their studies. This is especially concerns mothers studying a doctoral degree.