Scholars suggest that in high fertility settings where there is high wanted fertility, lowering the desired family size … is a necessary precondition for fertility declines. Though accumulated evidence has linked socio-economic developments to … changes in fertility desires, little efforts have taken to disentangle the relative importance of key socio …

Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …