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Greater Education Opportunities for Women Related to Population Growth

出版	Michigan State University, 1982
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w46RAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Previous research has supported the hypothesis that greater education of women reduces population growth. Increased education of women is hypothesized to depress fertility by raising the value of women's time in activities competing with child rearing. Also education is associated with an increased knowledge of, and an improved attitude toward, using more effective birth control techniques. In addition, education tends to delay the age of marriage. Schooling represents exposure to different types of experiences that may affect preferences and formation of tastes. The relationship between education and fertility, however, is likely to be quite complex and may not operate, at least with equal intensity, throughout the educational continuum. In low income settings where supply factors may constrain family size, more education may release supply constraints. Thus, the result will be better knowledge of health practices, enabling women to have more children and to avert child deaths. On the other hand, the impact of education on fertility through the participation of women in the labor force depends upon the fundamental assumption that the role of women as mother and worker are mutually exclusive and that there is a high cost of obtaining alternatives to the mother's time in the household.