Fig. 4From: Formal childcare services and fertility: the case of ItalySource: LFS for Italy and ISTAT regional statisticsAME of ECEC indicators on first, second and higher parity births across educational levels, by age and sex. Average marginal effects (AME) with 95% CIs of ECEC (3-year lag) on parity progression. Logistic regression models with regional fixed effects implemented by demeaning. Models incorporate a four-way interaction with ECEC, age, sex and education, and control for non-parametric time trends, marital status and immigration status. The CIs were trimmed at − 0.04 and + 0.04 to ensure a common axis on the plot due to the large confidence intervals. Back to article page