Female education and its impact on fertility

Jungho Kim

IZA World of Labor, 2016, No 228, 228

Abstract: The negative correlation between women’s education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however, its interpretation is unclear. Women’s education level could affect fertility through its impact on women’s health and their physical capacity to give birth, children’s health, the number of children desired, and women’s ability to control birth and knowledge of different birth control methods. Each of these mechanisms depends on the individual, institutional, and country circumstances experienced. Their relative importance may change along a country’s economic development process.

Keywords: female education; fertility; demand for children; fertility control costs; returns to education; family planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J13 J18 J22 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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