This note examines the influence of household decision making on women's uptake of reproductive health services, using … data from the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM). In households where women have greater … empowering women and increasing their ability to make decisions may increase their use of reproductive health services. The …

mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … probability of becoming a mother each year by 7.3 percent for women who have completed at least primary education, and 5.6 percent …"Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather …