The impact of women's schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries (English)

This article examines the relationship between female schooling and two behaviors, cumulative fertility and contraceptive use, in fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries where Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been conducted since the mid-1980s. Average levels of schooling among women of reproductive age are very low, from less than two years to six. Controlling for background variables, the last years of female primary schooling have a negative...

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Ainsworth,Martha;

Beegle,Kathleen G.;

Nyamete,Andrew V.;
Document Date
1996/01/01
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
77116
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2013/05/14
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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The impact of women's schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries
Keywords
Demographic and Health Survey

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Ainsworth,Martha; Beegle,Kathleen G.; Nyamete,Andrew V..

The impact of women's schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries (English). Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/838361468202140805

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