Jain A K
Demography. 1981 Nov;18(4):577-95.
This paper investigates the structure of the relationship between female education and fertility. It is based on data published in First Country Reports of the World Fertility Surveys for eleven countries--Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Fiji, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia. The cumulative marital fertility of educated women is shown to be similar in different settings. A lack of uniformity in the education and fertility relationship including the curvilinear nature of this relationship observed across countries is shown to be attributable to marked differences between countries in the average fertility of women with no education rather than to the presumed differences in the average fertility of the educated women. The structure of the relationship is shown to be similar across several developing countries. This analysis suggests that advancement in female education can be expected to influence fertility behavior even without simultaneous changes in other factors such as increasing opportunity for participation in the paid labor force in the modern sector.
本文研究了女性教育与生育之间关系的结构。它基于世界生育率调查针对11个国家——哥斯达黎加、哥伦比亚、多米尼加共和国、巴拿马、斐济、韩国、马来西亚、巴基斯坦、斯里兰卡、泰国和印度尼西亚的《第一份国别报告》中公布的数据。研究表明，在不同背景下，受过教育的女性的累积婚姻生育率相似。教育与生育关系缺乏一致性，包括在各国观察到的这种关系的曲线性质，被证明是由于未受过教育的女性的平均生育率在各国之间存在显著差异，而不是由于受过教育的女性的平均生育率存在假定差异。研究表明，在几个发展中国家，这种关系的结构相似。该分析表明，即使在没有其他因素同时变化的情况下，如现代部门中参与有偿劳动力的机会增加，女性教育的进步预计也会影响生育行为。
