Education, Fertility, and Development

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Education, Fertility, and Development

As development proceeds:

Does lowered fertility increase education?

But does fertility decline cause an increase in education?

Decrease in unwanted childbearing

Increase in public expenditure

The role of siblings

Is increased education a uniform benefit for women?

Interrelation of family, education change and woman’s status -- rise of capitalism

Chinese society

Contracts between parents and children

What are the mechanisms through which position of the sexes is determined?

Rights within family of origin

Training

Obligations to sons

Duration of contracts

What is the American contract between parents and children?

What is the American contract?

Implications of this system during childhood

Development in Taiwan

What were the changes?

Consequences for the family

Taiwan

What happened?

The new family strategy

Context matters

Malaysia

How else were inequalities perpetuated?

Women’s education

Content of education

Author: Jane Menken

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