Mass education and fertility transition
Mass education and fertility transition
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DOI：
10.2307/3088919
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发表时间：
2001-08-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Barber, JS
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作者：
Axinn, WG;Barber, JS
大众教育的普及和生育限制行为之间的关系进行了检查。对教育与生育限制的相关理论进行了整合，包括教育机会与生育率下降的相关理论、妇女教育与生育行为的相关理论、子女教育与父母生育行为的相关理论。使用调查数据的样本5,271居民的171个社区在尼泊尔农村，个人层面的机制联系社区层面的教育机会的变化，生育行为进行了测试。如果妇女在童年时离学校很近，成年后就大量使用永久避孕药具。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。还发现丈夫的教育程度和目前居住在学校附近对生育率有很强的限制作用。这些影响与其他教育相关措施无关。与教育有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.