Women's Education and Fertility
An Analysis of the Relationship between Education and Birth Spacing in Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4751876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jungho Kim (0000-0002-4587-5412, Korea Development Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 739-774 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/649638 |
| OpenAlex | W2011943360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 28 |
The negative relationship between women’s education and fertility is one of the strongest empirical regularities in social science, yet there are few empirical studies that identify the mechanisms through which education affects fertility. This article goes beyond the usual interpretation of education as a proxy for wage by testing whether education affects fertility through demand for children or through availability of contraceptives. Using the Indonesian case, it examines one aspect of fertility, namely, birth spacing, over the period 1970–93. I find that higher levels of female education are associated with a shorter birth interval among earlier cohorts but with a longer birth interval among later cohorts. The key finding is that changes in the effects of education on birth hazard over time are primarily driven by changes in the availability of contraceptives rather than by changes in the demand for children. In the context of contraceptive technology, the result can be interpreted as evidence for the hypothesis that education enhances the ability to decipher new information
Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Population · Proxy (statistics) · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |