Age of Marriage and Fertility. A Policy Review
The average age at which women marry and the number of children they produce tend to be negatively correlated. This negative relationship has received a good deal of attention from social scientists over the past several decades, and it has on occasion been suggested that if governments could find a way to raise the average age of marriage, the result would be a significant reduction in completed fertility. I Since reduction of population growth rates is an explicit policy of many developing nations, particularly Pakistan, it seems worth taking a closer look at age of marriage as a policy tool.
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1977
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Authors: | TRAY, DENNIS N. DE |
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The Pakistan Development Review. - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. - Vol. 16.1977, 1, p. 89-100
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics |
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