Development and Fertility

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Development and Fertility

WOMEN, development, and fertility

Fertility, development, and women

Development and Fertility

Development and Fertility

Economics and Fertility

Development and Fertility Change

They asked about program effort

Percentage TFR decline 1975-90

They also examined social setting

Percentage TFR decline 1975-90

Women’s education and fertility

Women’s education and other indicators

Within country relationships

Threshhold effects

Fertility increasing with education

The education pattern varies with level of development

Does education increase women’s autonomy?

Better educated women have more autonomy

Evidence of greater autonomy

But is education the only determinant of autonomy or empowerment?

Author: Jane Menken

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