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
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