This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects … of education across generations of women. Data used is drawn from the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. The Cox … proportional hazard model and linear regression analysis are used to analyse the data. The results show that education has a …

This paper argues against the suggestion that governments should push for gender equality more aggressively in order to …, arguing that the claims that fertility must be increased are based on myths. It rejects a more aggressive pursuit of gender … equality for demographic purposes, maintaining that this method preserves inequality. It warns against using gender equality …

disappear when gender differences in population composition by level of education, nationality, employment status, and housing …-2005, this paper investigates gender differences in mortality differentials by level of educational achievement and by marital … status. In both periods, the differential by level of education is clearly more pronounced among men, but the difference in …

€™s education and divorce has not become stronger in recent years. We also used fourteen years of panel survey data to evaluate four …

Using detailed data on period and cohort fertility in four European countries, this paper discusses various indicators … comparison of cohort fertility and corresponding indicators of period fertility; particular attention is paid to the periods of … intensive postponement of childbearing. Some period indicators come consistently closer to the completed cohort fertility than …