Fertility, Education and Resources in South Africa

Duncan Thomas

Working Papers from RAND - Labor and Population Program

Abstract: Population and education are likely to play a central role in public policy in South Africa as it emerges form years of apartheid. Using household survey data, collected as part of the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development, the paper examine some of the mechanisms that underlie the negative association between fertility and education.

Keywords: FERTILITY; EDUCATION; AFRICA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 1996
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