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The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts of adolescents born pre- and post-demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling of Brazilian adolescents. Decomposition analyses of nationally representative data demonstrate that,...
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is also related to age, parity, marital status, education, employment and birthplace. …
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some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …
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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 …
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€™s education to increase interest in fertility regulation and contraception among all women, regardless of their individual and … education has a greater capacity to introduce novel reproductive ideas and behaviors into rural areas of Africa and thereby … transform the demographic landscape in the region than is currently believed. There is also evidence that female education may …
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certificates, we computed age and education specific death rates. We calculate life expectancies at age 35 by educational level as …
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' education from about the secondary level onwards was found to be the only consistently significant covariate. No effect of … community aggregate education was discernible, after controlling for urbanity and other individual-level variables. The results … reinforce previous findings that improving girls' education is a key instrument for raising ages at first birth, but suggest …
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to which divorce is concentrated at lower levels of education. While educational differentials were negligible in 1980 …, by 2000, women who had not gone beyond high school were far more likely to be divorced than those with more education. …
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College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to … only compulsory education, and the third-birth progression ratios differ very little. This reflects weakly negative net … effects of education after first birth and spill-over effects from the higher age at first birth, counterbalanced by …
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extrinsic to an educational system (such as its flexibility, its gender structure, and the manner in which education is hooked …In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the … conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational …
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