The Impact of Women’s Education on Fertility In Latin America: Searching for Explanations
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International Family Planning Perspectives wide variety of settings inspired increasingly complex views: Demographers no longer regarded the impact of education on fertility as automatic, but as conditioned by the level of development, social organization, gender stratification and cultural milieu of the surrounding society. This new awareness of the complexity of the relationship was accompanied by a shift in the focus of research, in which the earlier emphasis on statistical associations was replaced by an interest in exploring the processes underlying the impact of education on reproductive behavior. In the search for such mediating mechanisms, most of the attention was directed to the proximate determinants of fertility, a legitimate focus given the importance of biological factors in the reproductive process. However, this focus somehow distorted the original goal of understanding the education-fertility relationship in all its complexity and richness. Ultimately, one has to go outside the biological realm to search for explanations for the impact of education on both fertility and its proximate determinants. Regardless of the approach followed, female education has become an essential component of fertility analysis. Information on schooling is routinely collected in all demographic surveys, and educational atTeresa Castro Martín is a population affairs officer at the Population Division, United Nations, and Fátima Juárez is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. An earlier version of this article was presented at the International Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Montreal, Aug. 24–Sept. 1, 1993, and as a Demographic and Health Surveys Working Paper. The views presented in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations. The Impact of Women’s Education on Fertility In Latin America: Searching for Explanations
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