Country-level contextual factors are proposed to affect the fertility behavior of women differently depending on their parity and educational level. Recent research documents variation in women’s educational gradient in fertility across sub-national regions within countries, suggesting differential responses by women also depending on regional context. This study aims at bridging between the national and sub-national layer to enhance understanding of the susceptibility of women’s childbearing to contextual conditions, particularly from the perspective of economic development. Utilizing register, census, and large-scale survey data from 15 European countries, the study measures women’s education, region of living linked to GDP, and fertility at the end of the reproductive career. Our findings show that, conditional on having entered motherhood, fertility of the women with higher education associates less negatively with economic conditions at the country and sub-national regional level. Well-developed contexts may be less detrimental to the continued childbearing of the more highly educated.