Fertility and Education. What Do We Really Know
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2863857 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Susan Hill Cochrane, Susan Cochrane |
| Ano | 1980 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Fascículo | 4/5 |
| Páginas | 985 |
| Data de publicação | 1980-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Population (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0032-4663 • E-ISSN: 1957-7966 |
| Editora | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1532377 |
| OpenAlex | W2072437254 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 183 |
Current research on the relationship between education and fertility is reviewed, and a model relating intervening variables to fertility is developed. The evidence indicates that education may increase or decrease individual fertility. The decrease is greater for the education of women than of men and is greater in urban than in rural areas. However, education is more likely to increase fertility in countries with the lowest level of female literacy. Probably, this increase occurs as a result of improved health, better nutrition, and the abandonment of traditional patterns of lactation and postpartum abstinence, education increases the ability to have live births. In societies with higher average levels of female literacy, education lowers the demand for children by altering perceptions of costs and benefits. In addition, once the biological supply of children exceeds the demand for them, high levels of education enable couples to limit their fertility more efficiently through access to contraceptive knowledge and improved ability to communicate with each other. Several issues require further research. Statistical tables and figues are provided
Abstinence · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Literacy · Population · Research methodology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology
Optimizing offspring
Fertility and Family Planning in Accra
Differential Fertility by Religious Group in Rural Sierra Leone
Determinants of current contraceptive use among Ghanaian women at the highest risk of pregnancy
Fertility decline in Tanzania
How Does the Spread of Primary and Secondary Schooling Influence the Fertility Transition? Evidence From Rural Nepal
Immunisation coverage in Lusaka, Zambia; implications of the social setting
Does women's literacy affect desired fertility and contraceptive use in rural–urban Pakistan?
Nuptiality patterns in two West African states
Comments on Nardi's “Modes of Explanation in Anthropological Population Theory”
Reported evidence on the effectiveness of mass media interventions in increasing knowledge and use of family planning in low and middle-income countries
Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers
Comparison of the Historical Fertility Levels among the Nine Provinces of South Africa
The impact of primary schooling on economic development
Lactation amenorrhea in Saudi women
Learning from Communities
Schooling and Earnings Distributions with Endogenous Labour Force Participation, Marital Status and Family Size
The Origins of Family Planning in Tunisia
Female Education and Child Mortality in Indonesia
The Impact of Women's Schooling on Fertility and Contraceptive Use
Population and Savings
Food Needs and Work Capacity
Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base
The Objects of Social Contracts
The Commodity Basis of Well‐Being
Well‐Being
Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity
Decentralization and Central Guidance
Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy
Real National Income as a Measure of General Well‐Being
Religious Theory vs. Modernization Theory
Fertility Transition
Adaptation to Undernourishment
Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World
Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions
Households and Credit Restraints
The Impact of Women's Education on Fertility In Latin America
Social versus reproductive success
Effects of Schooling on Fertility, Labor Supply, and Investments in Children, with Evidence from Brazil
Early Marriage Among Women in Developing Countries
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016
A cohort analysis of the timing of first birth and fertility in Ghana
Fertility in China 1982–1990
Social change, population policies, and fertility decline in Colombia and Venezuela
Education, employment, and fertility in Kinshasa and prospects for changes in reproductive behavior
Main and Interaction Effects of Women's Education and Status on Fertility
Does reducing the length of school cycles affect Women's fertility? Quasi-Experimental evidence from Ghana
Population Control and Family Life Education in South-South, Nigeria
Mothers’ education and childhood anaemia in Uganda
Socio-cultural organization and fertility attitudes and behaviour of wives in Ezibeleni township (Transkei)
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
Literacy, Gender and Vulnerability
Ethnicity and Fertility Differentials in Peninsular Malaysia
Demography, Education, and Democracy
A Population Policy Rationale for the Twenty-First Century
Population and Resources
The Education Effect on Population Health
The Emerging Demographic Transitions of Southeast Asia
Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus
Fertility Differentials by Education in Brazil
Demographic Surveys and Nigerian Women
The Impact of Social and Economic Factors on the Size of Israeli Jewish Families
Sociology and the Reproductive Self
Urbanization, Secularization, and Birth Spacing
Microfoundations of the weakening educational gradient in fertility
Women's education and fertility in select countries of Africa and Asia
The relative importance of women's education on fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa
Innovation and Adaptation in Fertility Transition
Fertility and Pension Programs in LDCs
Education, Income, and Desired Fertility in Egypt
Girls' Education and Fertility Transitions
Social Change, the Social Organization of Families, and Fertility Limitation
The Influence of Wives' and Husbands' Education Levels On Contraceptive Method Choice in Nepal, 1996-2006
Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050
Progression to third birth in Morocco in the context of fertility transition
Education stalls and subsequent stalls in African fertility
How does education change the relationship between fertility and age-dependency under environmental constraints? A long-term simulation exercise
Fertility trends by social status
School-Enrollment Rates and Trends, Gender, and Fertility
Differential fertility in Bangladesh
Intelligence and family size reconsidered
Female education, age, parity, and reproduction cessation in Ghana
Fertility Motivations of Youth Predict Later Fertility Outcomes
Population Knowledge and Attitudes of Latin American Adolescents
Symposium
Motivational and nonmotivational determinants of child-number desires
Internal consistency of demographic assumptions in the shared socioeconomic pathways
The dynamics of fertility amongst Palestinians in Israel from 1980 to 2000
Fertility and eugenics
Labor market structure and fertility differences among Puerto Rican women
The transition to parenthood in Puerto Rico
Part I
The Contrasting Effects of Education on Fertility over Time Casalguidi, 1819–1960
Designer Genes
Multilevel Models of Fertility Determination in Four Southeast Asian Countries
Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior
Trends and determinants of contraceptive use in Kenya
Biodemographic modeling of the links between fertility motivation and fertility outcomes in the NLSY79
Three to five main challenges to demographic research
A New Look at the Effect of Venereal Disease on Black Fertility
| Obras citantes distintas | 183 |
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| Citações por ano | 4,07 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Sim |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 164 |