Female education and its impact on fertility

Artikel

The negative correlation between women’s education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however, its interpretation is unclear. 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2016 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Returns to Education ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: female education ; fertility ; demand for children ; fertility control costs ; returns to education ; family planning

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kim, Jungho
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.228
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148453
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET