Women's education and the timing of marriage and childbearing in the next generation: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
Women's education and the timing of marriage and childbearing in the next generation: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1728-4465.2007.00121.x
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发表时间：
2007-06-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Schuler, Sidney Ruth
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作者：
Bates, Lisa M.;Maselko, Joanna;Schuler, Sidney Ruth
在早婚早育的传统环境中，关于结婚年龄的决定往往是由父母决定的，而婆婆往往在加速开始生育方面具有相当大的影响力。本研究分析了2002年在孟加拉国6个农村进行的一项调查数据，以检验受教育程度较高的妇女的女儿结婚较晚以及受教育程度较高的妇女的儿媳开始生育的速度较慢的假设。使用Cox比例风险模型，我们发现母亲的教育水平与其女儿的结婚年龄之间存在显著关联，婆婆的教育水平与其儿媳的第一次生育时间之间存在显著关联，尽管在控制其他变量时前者之间的关联减弱。我们还发现，这些关联似乎并不受高级女性赋权水平的调节。我们得出的结论是，在孟加拉国农村，一代女性受教育程度与下一代女性结婚和生育的时间之间存在显著关系。
In traditional settings where early marriage and early childbearing persist, decisions about age at marriage are often made by parents, and mothers-in-law tend to have considerable influence in hastening the initiation of childbearing. This study analyzes data from a 2002 survey in six villages in rural Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that daughters of women with more education marry later and that daughters-in-law of more educated women initiate childbearing at a slower rate. Using Cox proportional hazard models, we find significant associations between the educational level of mothers and the age at marriage of their daughters and between the educational level of mothers-in-law and the timing of first birth among their daughters-in-law, although the association between the former attenuates when controlling for other variables. We also find that these associations do not appear to be mediated by the senior women's level of empowerment. We conclude that in rural Bangladesh there is a significant relationship between female education in one generation and the timing of marriage and childbearing in the next.