Education, Status Enhancement, and Fertility

Kasarda, John D.; Billy, John O. G.; West, Kirsten

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-400310-1.50011-5

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“…This is consistent with the log-rank test which revealed a significant difference in survival times between the various categories of educational levels: Thus, higher education means longer waiting time. The results of the significant impact of education on age at first birth is consistent with views of other researchers such as Kasarda et al,1986;Bloom and Trussell, 1984 Kohler et al, 2002. These studies revealed that, higher educational attainment results in a postponement of childbirth and consequently resulting in higher ages at first birth.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Many studies also identify educational attainment as a factor associated with fertility postponement. Empirical work along these theoretical lines, mostly analysing US data (Kasarda et al, 1986;Bloom and Trussell, 1984;Blackburn et al, 1993 among others) and some European countries as reviewed in Kravdal, (1994), all found a positive effect of women education on the timing of their first birth. Amuedo-Dorantes and Kimmel (2004) also established that, college educated women, who had their first child after they turned 30, earn more than similarly educated women, who had their first child before they were 30.…”

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The Statistical Distribution and Determinants of Mother’s Age at First Birth

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2015

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Abstract:The age at which child bearing begins, influences the number of children a woman bears throughout her reproductive period in the absence of any active fertility control. This study employed both parametric and non-parametric survival analysis techniques, with a cohort of women within the reproductive age (15-49 years), to determine the statistical distribution of the age at first birth of a woman from her time of birth and identify the significant prognostic factors determining the timing of first birth of Ghanaian women. Using data from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), the study fitted several parametric Accelerated Failure Time models, from which the best parametric distribution for age at first birth was selected. The results revealed that, the average age at first birth was about 20 years, with more than 87.4% of the women having giving birth before they attained 25 years of age. The age at first birth among the Ghanaian women was best modeled by the log-logistic model. By this model, the age at which a woman had her first birth was determined, at the 10% significance level, by her Age at first marriage, her Educational level, her Wealth Status and whether or not the women practiced family planning before their first birth.

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Section: Accelerated Failure Time Models Analysissupporting

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The Statistical Distribution and Determinants of Mother’s Age at First Birth

Ida¹

2015

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“…The number of births did not relate significantly to contraceptive knowledge, suggesting that the unwillingness to have an abortion was not because of an intention to have more children but because of a reluctance to abort. Finally, the finding of a relationship between educational level and contraceptive knowledge supports the suggestion put forth by Kasarda, Billy, and West (1986) that education gives a woman access to contraceptive knowledge. This suggestion may be more true at higher levels of education.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…They found an inverse relationship between income level and unintended births for all methods of birth control employed. Kasarda, Billy, and West (1986) key element in enabling a woman to limit the number of children she bears. After reviewing many studies of fertility throughout the world, they concluded that increased education gives women skills to pursue employment, thus providing the means to economic security and the motivation to control births.…”

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Use of contraceptives by women of upper socioeconomic status

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1990

Health Care for Women International

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This was a descriptive correlational study of the contraceptive knowledge, methods, and consistency of contraceptive use by women of upper socioeconomic class. Socioeconomic class was determined using Hollingshead's Four-Factor Index of Social Status (1975) and was based on the woman's own educational and occupational status. The mean socioeconomic score for participants in this study (N = 83) was high in the second of five socioeconomic classes. Study participants were found to be consistent users of their contraceptive method and had fewer unplanned pregnancies in their history than the general population. They were more knowledgeable about contraceptives and reproduction than others tested with the same contraceptive knowledge instrument. They used barrier methods predominantly, with the use of less theoretically effective methods correlating significantly with a greater number of contraceptive methods used in the past.

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“…Caldwell (1979Caldwell ( , 1982, for example, proposes that schooling propagates an ideology of Western individualism that subverts the gerontocracy of the domestic family, leaving young mothers freer to seek modern medical services for their infants (rather than complying with the advice of elders) and leaving school children freer to consume rather than augment their parent's resources, thus reducing the economic returns to childbearing. Easterlin ( 1983) emphasizes the acquisition of modern ideas and Kasarda, Billy, and West (1986) the acquisition of status-enhancement motives as outcomes of schooling that affect fertility. We sought to discover the extent to which such patterns of ideological change were evident among the Cuernavaca women whom we surveyed.…”

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