Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/274645 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA World of Labor [ISSN:] 2054-9571 [Article No.:] 228v2 [Year:] 2023
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The negative correlation between women's education and fertility has been observed across regions and time, although it is now weaker among high-income countries. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and their physical capacity to give birth, children's health, the number of children desired, and women's ability to control birth and knowledge of different birth control methods. Each of these mechanisms depends on the individual, institutional, and country circumstances experienced. Their relative importance may change along a country's economic development process.
Subjects: 
female education
fertility
demand for children
fertility control costs
returns to education
family planning
JEL: 
J13
J18
J22
I26
O15
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Document Type: 
Article

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