A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

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ID2636087
AuthorsØystein Kravdal (0000-0001-6417-9837, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume3
Pages[35] p.-[35]
Publication date2000-08-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemographic Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1435-9871 • E-ISSN: 2363-7064
PublisherMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.4054/demres.2000.3.3
PMID12178152
OpenAlexW2014423935
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited10

The analysis was based on the 1994 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey combined with aggregate data from the 1992 census. Discrete-time hazard models for first and higher-order births were estimated for 1990-94. The average length of education in the district and the proportion who are literate were found to have no impact on a woman's birth rate above and beyond that of her own education, when it was controlled for urbanization. This was the case for women who themselves had little or no education as well as for the better educated. So far, no significant influence of aggregate education on fertility has been well documented in the literature either. However, in this study, aggregate-level effects appeared in models for fertility desires and contraceptive use among married women with at least one child

Aggregate data · Birth order · Birth rate · Census · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Hazard model · Population · Research methodology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Survey data collection · Total fertility rate · Urbanization · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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