Like Mother(-in-Law) Like Daughter? Influence of the Older Generation's Fertility Behaviours on Women's Desired Family Size in Bihar, India
Like Mother(-in-Law) Like Daughter? Influence of the Older Generation's Fertility Behaviours on Women's Desired Family Size in Bihar, India
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10.1007/s10680-016-9379-z
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2016-12-01
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Muttarak, Raya
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Kumar, Abhishek;Bordone, Valeria;Muttarak, Raya
本文调查了印度比哈尔邦农村妇女偏爱的家庭规模与其母亲和婆婆生育行为之间的关系。2011年对440对16-34岁的已婚妇女及其岳母进行了预定的访谈。首选家庭规模首先通过库姆斯量表来衡量，使我们能够捕获潜在的期望子女数量，然后将其分为三类(低、中、高)。女性喜欢的家庭规模是用有序Logistic回归估计的。我们发现，家庭规模偏好与母亲的生育能力无关，而与母亲的教育程度有关。婆婆想要的孙子孙女数量与女性想要的家庭规模呈正相关。然而，当女性受教育程度高于她的婆婆时，她喜欢的家庭规模会变小，这表明教育为女性提供了更大的生育决策自主权。
This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of women in rural Bihar, India and the fertility behaviours of their mother and mother-in-law. Scheduled interviews of 440 pairs of married women aged 16-34 years and their mothers-in-law were conducted in 2011. Preferred family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children and then categorized into three categories (low, medium and high). Women's preferred family size is estimated using ordered logistic regression. We find that the family size preferences are not associated with mother's fertility but with mother's education. Mother-in-law's desired number of grandchildren is positively associated with women's preferred family size. However, when the woman has higher education than her mother-in-law, her preferred family size gets smaller, suggesting that education provides women with greater autonomy in their decision-making on childbearing.