Mass Education and Fertility Transition
Mass Education and Fertility Transition
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大众教育和生育转变
DOI：
10.1177/000312240106600401
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Jennifer S. Barber
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作者：
W. Axinn;Jennifer S. Barber
研究了大众教育的普及与限制生育行为之间的关系。现有的有关教育与限制生育的理论被整合，包括有关教育机会的存在与生育率下降的理论，有关妇女教育与其生育行为的理论，以及有关儿童教育与其父母生育行为的理论。利用来自尼泊尔农村171个社区的5271名居民样本的调查数据，测试了将社区教育机会变化与生育行为联系起来的个人层面机制。妇女在童年时期离学校近，会大大增加成年后永久性避孕措施的使用。这一发现在很大程度上与妇女后来是否上学、她的丈夫是否上学、她成年后是否住在学校附近以及她是否送孩子上学无关。丈夫的受教育程度和目前居住在学校附近也有很强的生育限制作用。这些影响是独立于其他教育相关措施的。与教育相关的最大影响是送孩子上学。
The relationship between the spread of mass education and fertility-limiting behavior is examined. Existing theories relating education to fertility limitation are integrated, including those relating the presence of educational opportunity to fertility decline, theories relating women's education to their fertility behavior, and theories relating children's education to the fertility behavior of their parents. Using survey data from a sample of 5,271 residents of 171 neighborhoods in rural Nepal, the individual-level mechanisms linking community-level changes in educational opportunity to fertility behavior are tested. A woman's proximity to a school during childhood dramatically increases permanent contraceptive use in adulthood. This finding is largely independent of whether the woman subsequently attended school, whether her husband attended school, whether she lived near a school in adulthood, and whether she sent her children to school. Strong fertility limitation effects were also found for husband's education and for currently living near a school. These effects were independent of other education-related measures. The largest education-related effect is for sending children to school.