Sequential probit approach is used to model differentials in the effects of women’seducation on parity progression in Ethiopia. Since reasons to have a first childmay differ from those to have, say, a second or third child, we allow the effects ofcovariates on the progression propensities to vary between parities in the same model.Data used for illustration come from the Ethiopian Mini Demographic and HealthSurvey of 2019 in which 8885 women from 11 regions were interviewed. Resultsshow that the sequential model provides more insight than conventional modelswhen exploring the association between education and parity progression. We alsofound similarities and differences in the effects of education on parity progressionamong the regions. A random effect term to account for women’s clustering withinhouseholds was significant in a model for the entire country but disappeared whenregion was included as a covariate in the model.