Urbanization, fertility and child education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Flückiger and Markus Ludwig

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 157, issue C, 97-102

Abstract: Using individual-level survey data, we show that the urbanization process in today’s Sub-Saharan Africa is associated with the fertility transition and increased investment in child education. This is consistent with the experience of the Western economies during their transition from a (post-)Malthusian towards a modern growth regime. The use of individual-level data allows us to analyze structural rural–urban differences, holding constant age and regional characteristics which are potentially confounding factors in regional- and country-level regressions.

Keywords: Fertility; Mortality; Human capital; Structural transition; Urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O18 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.05.024

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