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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010

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Contents:
Introduction
Bilal Barakat - Hans-Peter Blossfeld: The search for a demography of education: some thoughts

Demographic Debate
Wolfgang Lutz: Education will be at the heart of 21st century demography
Harvey J. Graff: The Literacy Myth: literacy, education and demography
Alaka Malwade Basu: Mass schooling, empowerment, and demographic and economic outcomes: a note of dissent

Refereed Articles
John Bongaarts: The causes of educational differences in fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Christos Bagavos: Education and childlessness: the relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born in 1955-195
Karel Neels - David De Wachter: Postponement and recuperation of Belgian fertility: how are they related to rising female educational attainment?
Jan Van Bavel - Joanna Ró¿a¿ska-Putek: Second birth rates across europe: interactions between women's level of education and child care enrolment
Johannes Klotz: Convergence or divergence of educational disparities in mortality and morbidity? The evolution of life expectancy and health expectancy by educational attainment in Austria in 1981-2006
Regina Fuchs - Elsie Pamuk - Wolfgang Lutz: Education or wealth: which matters more for reducing child mortality in developing countries?
Samir KC - Harold Lentzner: The effect of education on adult mortality and disability: a global perspective
Priska Flandorfer - Katrin Fliegenschnee: Education and health: theoretical considerations based on a qualitative grounded theory
Martin Spielauer: Persistence and change of the relative difference in educational attainment by ethno-cultural group and gender in Canada
Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios-Neto - Raquel Rangel de Meireles Guimarães: The demography of education in Brazil: inequality of educational opportunities based on Grade Progression Probability (1986-2008)

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REFEREED ARTICLES - The causes of educational differences in fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

    John Bongaarts

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010, pp. 31-50, 2010/12/22

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2010s31


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Abstract

This study first presents an analytic framework that describes the chain of causation linking fertility to its multiple layers of determinants. Next, this framework is applied to analyse the causes of educational fertility differences in 30 sub-Saharan African countries using data from DHS surveys. The results demonstrate that education levels are positively associated with demand for and use of contraception and negatively associated with fertility and desired family size. In addition, there are differences by level of education in the relationships between indicators. As education rises, fertility is lower at a given level of contraceptive use, contraceptive use is higher at a given level of demand, and demand is higher at a given level of desired family size. The most plausible explanations for these shifting relationships are that better-educated women marry later and less often, use contraception more effectively, have more knowledge about and access to contraception, have greater autonomy in reproductive decision-making, and are more motivated to implement demand because of the higher opportunity costs of unintended childbearing.

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